Package org.springframework.boot.cli.app

Class SpringApplicationLauncher

java.lang.Object

org.springframework.boot.cli.app.SpringApplicationLauncher

public class SpringApplicationLauncher
extends Object

A launcher for SpringApplication or a SpringApplication subclass. The class that is used can be configured using the System property spring.application.class.name or the SPRING_APPLICATION_CLASS_NAME environment variable. Uses reflection to allow the launching code to exist in a separate ClassLoader from the application code.

Since:

1.2.0

Author:

Andy Wilkinson

See Also:

• System.getProperty(String)
• System.getenv(String)

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
SpringApplicationLauncher(ClassLoader classLoader)	Creates a new launcher that will use the given classLoader to load the configured SpringApplication class.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
protected String	getEnvironmentVariable(String name)
Object	launch(Class<?>[] sources, String[] args)	Launches the application created using the given sources.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

SpringApplicationLauncher

public SpringApplicationLauncher(ClassLoader classLoader)

Creates a new launcher that will use the given classLoader to load the configured SpringApplication class.

Parameters:

classLoader - the ClassLoader to use

Method Details

launch

public Object launch(Class<?>[] sources,
 String[] args)
              throws Exception

Launches the application created using the given sources. The application is launched with the given args.

Parameters:

sources - the sources for the application

args - the args for the application

Returns:

the application's ApplicationContext

Throws:

Exception - if the launch fails

getEnvironmentVariable

protected String getEnvironmentVariable(String name)