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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/8/14 3:16 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:<br>
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The question I guess is partly whether properties inherit or not.</pre>
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Just spend some more time looking at this. I'm pretty sure they do
effectively inherit. Looks like in general when
ConfigurableApplicationContext#setParent(parentContext), this code
from AbstractApplicationContext is called:<br>
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<tt>public void setParent(ApplicationContext parent) {</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> this.parent = parent;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> if (parent != null) {</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> Environment parentEnvironment =
parent.getEnvironment();</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> if (parentEnvironment instanceof
ConfigurableEnvironment) {</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>
getEnvironment().merge((ConfigurableEnvironment)
parentEnvironment);</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> }</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> }</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>}</tt><br>
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All the extant ApplicationContexts impls extend
AbstractApplicationContext.<br>
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All the extant Environment impls are also ConfigurableEnvironment,
so the merge() happens.<br>
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From its Javadoc, the merge() amongst other things merges the
PropertySource instances from the parent into the child's
Environment (unless ones with the same name already exist in the
child, in which case that child property source instance is
preserved). <br>
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Only potential issue I see is that if the parent Environment changes
*after* setParent is called on the child, it won't pick up those
changes:<br>
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<tt> Note that any changes to</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> the parent environment occurring after the call to {@code
merge} will not be</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> reflected in the child. Therefore, care should be taken to
configure parent</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> property sources and profile information prior to calling
{@code merge}.</tt><br>
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But I doubt that's an issue here.<br>
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