spring.profiles.include overrides other profiles being activate

[cdprete]

Hi.
In my Spring Boot 2.4.3 application I've the following YAML configuration in the application.yml file:

spring.profiles.include: native
spring.profiles.group.default: demo-data,dev

As a result, I now get just the native profile as being activated.
This was not the case with Spring Boot 2.1.2 where I had:

• in the application.yml file:

spring.profiles.include: native

• in the application-default.yml file:

spring.profiles.active: demo-data,dev

and, as a result, all of them where activated.

Is there a way to get the old behaviour back?

[wilkinsona]

Is there a way to get the old behaviour back?

If you set spring.config.use-legacy-processing=true, you can continue to use your old arrangement with spring.profiles.include and spring.profiles.active.

[cdprete]

I read about it, but I would like to avoid it since it could be dropped.

[philwebb]

I'm actually quite surprised that native, demo-data and dev were all activated with earlier versions of Spring Boot. It seems a little confusing to me that the default profile isn't active but the ones it includes are.

Can you describe your setup a little more? What's the purpose of the demo-dev and dev profiles and when you expect them to be active/inactive? Could they be moved into spring.profiles.include? I.e. spring.profiles.include: native, demo-dev, dev?

[cdprete]

@philwebb dev provides configurations for local development (e.g., use basic authentication rather then JWT authentication) and demo-data enables the generation of demo data, if needed.
While developing we usually want those profiles to be enabled and we don't specify any specific profile to be activated, but we don't want them in production and therefore I cannot put them in the include and activate them unconditionally.

[philwebb]

@cdprete If I understand you correctly, you want to run an app on a developer machine without any profiles active and get native, dev and demo-data? Then when you move it into production you want to just get native? Do you activate some additional profile when running in production?

[cdprete]

@philwebb you got the point for the DEV setup and, to answer to your question, yes we do enable other profiles in production (not demo-data and dev of course).
So, in production I would like to have the native profile active plus the others that we specify through the OPTS.