Cas configuration properties source locator

[Mohamed Amdouni]

Hello,

I’m using cas management 6.6.4 and cas 6.6.15

I have an instance of cas management that uses standalone mode. I use the cas.standalone.configuration-directory property to set the configuration folder where I have my management.properties application.properties and bootstrap.properties.

All files are loaded successfully in the log files but the class path files are loaded in the end which will override my values. 

In the documentation it’s specified that the class path files application management properties are overrided by external files. 

Do I missed some options to override class path files ? 

Thanks.

[Ray Bon]

Mohamed,

I was having similar problems with v6.5.

Maybe try version 7.0

Ray

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[Mohamed Amdouni]

Ray, Thanks for your answer.

I think that the problem is also on 6.6.0+ versions. 

This class has been modified : https://github.com/apereo/cas/blob/master/core/cas-server-core-configuration-api/src/main/java/org/apereo/cas/configuration/DefaultCasConfigurationPropertiesSourceLocator.java#L71

The embedded properties are loaded after external files.

In the previous versions, only yaml files were considered and since they are empty by default, there is no impact on the defined properties in the external files.

Now since this fix (https://github.com/apereo/cas/commit/1c48048242bae9fdee668a6b9e156e715f8b3617) take in account all types of configuration files (yaml, yml and properties), and since there are default properties files in the classpath, they will be always loaded at the end and override external ones.

Is there a way to override the DefaultCasConfigurationPropertiesSourceLocator, so I will change the order of loading properties?

Now the only workaround that I found is to define system properties on the cas startup script : -Dcas.server.name and jpa service registry properties, otherwise it will load an empty memory database for cas management...

Best Regards.

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[Ray Bon]

Mohamed,

I know cas will load config so that external files have priority over embedded files. There must be some other factor in cas-management that is not in cas to upset this behaviour.

Tomcat will log properties passed in on command line, so this logging needs to be turned off so secrets do not end up in the log files.

Ray