I had the requirement to retrieve all properties whose key starts with a distinct prefix (e.g. all properties starting with “log4j.appender.”) and wrote following Code (using streams and lamdas of Java 8).

public static Map<String,Object> getPropertiesStartingWith( ConfigurableEnvironment aEnv,
                                                            String aKeyPrefix )
{
    Map<String,Object> result = new HashMap<>();

    Map<String,Object> map = getAllProperties( aEnv );

    for (Entry<String, Object> entry : map.entrySet())
    {
        String key = entry.getKey();

        if ( key.startsWith( aKeyPrefix ) )
        {
            result.put( key, entry.getValue() );
        }
    }

    return result;
}

public static Map<String,Object> getAllProperties( ConfigurableEnvironment aEnv )
{
    Map<String,Object> result = new HashMap<>();
    aEnv.getPropertySources().forEach( ps -> addAll( result, getAllProperties( ps ) ) );
    return result;
}

public static Map<String,Object> getAllProperties( PropertySource<?> aPropSource )
{
    Map<String,Object> result = new HashMap<>();

    if ( aPropSource instanceof CompositePropertySource)
    {
        CompositePropertySource cps = (CompositePropertySource) aPropSource;
        cps.getPropertySources().forEach( ps -> addAll( result, getAllProperties( ps ) ) );
        return result;
    }

    if ( aPropSource instanceof EnumerablePropertySource<?> )
    {
        EnumerablePropertySource<?> ps = (EnumerablePropertySource<?>) aPropSource;
        Arrays.asList( ps.getPropertyNames() ).forEach( key -> result.put( key, ps.getProperty( key ) ) );
        return result;
    }

    // note: Most descendants of PropertySource are EnumerablePropertySource. There are some
    // few others like JndiPropertySource or StubPropertySource
    myLog.debug( "Given PropertySource is instanceof " + aPropSource.getClass().getName()
                 + " and cannot be iterated" );

    return result;

}

private static void addAll( Map<String, Object> aBase, Map<String, Object> aToBeAdded )
{
    for (Entry<String, Object> entry : aToBeAdded.entrySet())
    {
        if ( aBase.containsKey( entry.getKey() ) )
        {
            continue;
        }

        aBase.put( entry.getKey(), entry.getValue() );
    }
}

Note that the starting point is the ConfigurableEnvironment which is able to return the embedded PropertySources (the ConfigurableEnvironment is a direct descendant of Environment). You can autowire it by:

@Autowired
private ConfigurableEnvironment  myEnv;

If you not using very special kinds of property sources (like JndiPropertySource, which is usually not used in spring autoconfiguration) you can retrieve all properties held in the environment.

The implementation relies on the iteration order which spring itself provides and takes the first found property, all later found properties with the same name are discarded. This should ensure the same behaviour as if the environment were asked directly for a property (returning the first found one).

Note also that the returned properties are not yet resolved if they contain aliases with the ${…} operator. If you want to have a particular key resolved you have to ask the Environment directly again:

myEnv.getProperty( key );