Define and read environment properties

Let us see how to define environment specific properties and read them from code

Define Environment specific property files#

Create JSON files to store properties specific to environment.

Let us create JSON files as below :

1. data_sets/QA/properties.json : This file to hold environment properties for QA environment

2. data_sets/UAT/properties.json : This file to hold environment properties for UAT environment

Add properties#

data_sets/QA/properties.json

{
  "property1": "property1_value_qa",
  "property2": "property2_value_qa"
}

data_sets/UAT/properties.json

{
  "property1": "property1_value_uat",
  "property2": "property2_value_uat"
}

Config changes#

In the previous article we have made config changes in qa.properties and uat.properties

This is how properties would be read as:

Reading properties#

1. Inject DataSetsClient object @Inject private DataSetsClient dataSetsClient;
2. Read value of property String property1 = dataSetsClient.getValue("property1", String.class);

Full Code#

package ekam.example.web;

import com.google.inject.Inject;
import com.testvagrant.ekam.commons.data.DataSetsClient;
import com.testvagrant.ekam.testBases.testng.WebTest;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class DataSetsClientTest extends WebTest {

    @Inject private DataSetsClient dataSetsClient;

    @Test(groups = "web")
    public void shouldTestSomething() {
        String property1 = dataSetsClient.getValue("property1", String.class);
        System.out.println(property1);

        String property2 = dataSetsClient.getValue("property2", String.class);
        System.out.println(property2);
    }
}

Execute tests#

Execute tests against uat:
./gradlew clean runWebTests -Dconfig=uat

The output would be:

property1_value_uat
property2_value_uat

Execute test against qa:
./gradlew clean runWebTests -Dconfig=qa

The output would be:

property1_value_qa
property2_value_qa