public final class ConfigProvider
extends java.lang.Object

This is the central class to access a Config. A Config provides access to application Configuration. That might be auto-discovered Config or even manually created one.

The default usage is to use getConfig() to automatically pick up the 'Configuration' for the Thread Context ClassLoader (See Thread.getContextClassLoader()).

A 'Configuration' consists of the information collected from the registered ConfigSources. These ConfigSources get sorted according to their ordinal defined via ConfigSource.getOrdinal(). Thus it is possible to overwrite configuration by providing in a ConfigSource with higher importance from outside.

It is also possible to register custom ConfigSources to flexibly extend the configuration mechanism. An example would be to pick up configuration values from a database table. Example usage:

 String restUrl = ConfigProvider.getConfig().getValue("myproject.some.remote.service.url", String.class);
 Integer port = ConfigProvider.getConfig().getValue("myproject.some.remote.service.port", Integer.class);
 

For more advanced use cases like e.g. registering a manually created Config please see ConfigProviderResolver.registerConfig(Config, ClassLoader) and ConfigProviderResolver.getBuilder().