@ConfigurationProperties Validation

Spring Boot attempts to validate @ConfigurationProperties classes whenever they are annotated with Spring’s @Validated annotation. You can use JSR-303 jakarta.validation constraint annotations directly on your configuration class. To do so, ensure that a compliant JSR-303 implementation is on your classpath and then add constraint annotations to your fields, as shown in the following example:

Java
Kotlin

import java.net.InetAddress;

import jakarta.validation.constraints.NotNull;

import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties;
import org.springframework.validation.annotation.Validated;

@ConfigurationProperties("my.service")
@Validated
public class MyProperties {

	@NotNull
	private InetAddress remoteAddress;

	// getters/setters...

	public InetAddress getRemoteAddress() {
		return this.remoteAddress;
	}

	public void setRemoteAddress(InetAddress remoteAddress) {
		this.remoteAddress = remoteAddress;
	}

}

import jakarta.validation.constraints.NotNull
import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties
import org.springframework.validation.annotation.Validated
import java.net.InetAddress

@ConfigurationProperties("my.service")
@Validated
class MyProperties {

	var remoteAddress: @NotNull InetAddress? = null

}

You can also trigger validation by annotating the @Bean method that creates the configuration properties with @Validated.

To ensure that validation is always triggered for nested properties, even when no properties are found, the associated field must be annotated with @Valid. The following example builds on the preceding MyProperties example:

Java
Kotlin

import java.net.InetAddress;

import jakarta.validation.Valid;
import jakarta.validation.constraints.NotEmpty;
import jakarta.validation.constraints.NotNull;

import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties;
import org.springframework.validation.annotation.Validated;

@ConfigurationProperties("my.service")
@Validated
public class MyProperties {

	@NotNull
	private InetAddress remoteAddress;

	@Valid
	private final Security security = new Security();

	// getters/setters...

	public InetAddress getRemoteAddress() {
		return this.remoteAddress;
	}

	public void setRemoteAddress(InetAddress remoteAddress) {
		this.remoteAddress = remoteAddress;
	}

	public Security getSecurity() {
		return this.security;
	}

	public static class Security {

		@NotEmpty
		private String username;

		// getters/setters...

		public String getUsername() {
			return this.username;
		}

		public void setUsername(String username) {
			this.username = username;
		}

	}

}

import jakarta.validation.Valid
import jakarta.validation.constraints.NotEmpty
import jakarta.validation.constraints.NotNull
import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties
import org.springframework.validation.annotation.Validated
import java.net.InetAddress

@ConfigurationProperties("my.service")
@Validated
class MyProperties {

	var remoteAddress: @NotNull InetAddress? = null

	@Valid
	val security = Security()

	class Security {

		@NotEmpty
		var username: String? = null

	}

}

You can also add a custom Spring Validator by creating a bean definition called configurationPropertiesValidator. The @Bean method should be declared static. The configuration properties validator is created very early in the application’s lifecycle, and declaring the @Bean method as static lets the bean be created without having to instantiate the @Configuration class. Doing so avoids any problems that may be caused by early instantiation.

The spring-boot-actuator module includes an endpoint that exposes all @ConfigurationProperties beans. Point your web browser to /actuator/configprops or use the equivalent JMX endpoint. See the "Production ready features" section for details.