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May 17, 2020 · This tutorial will help you getting how to use the Properties class for reading and writing configuration for your Java applications. And at the end, we have a sample Swing application that demonstrates reading and writing configuration for database settings.
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Jul 30, 2019 · In this tutorial, we introduce another approach using the java.util.prefs.Preferences class which stores and retrieves configuration data in an OS-specific way (such as registry entries on Windows OS).
- Overview
- Loading Properties
- Get Properties
- Set Properties
- Store
- Default Property List
- Properties and Encoding
- Conclusion
Most Java applications need to use properties at some point, generally to store simple parameters as key-value pairs outside of compiled code. As such, the language has first class support for properties with java.util.Properties,a utility class designed for handling these types of configuration files. That’s what we’ll focus on in this tutorial.
2.1. From Properties Files
Let’s start with an example for loading key-value pairs from properties files. We’ll load two files we have available on our classpath: app.properties: And catalog: Notice that although it’s recommended for the properties files to use the suffix “.properties“, it’s not necessary. We can now load them very simply into a Propertiesinstance: As long as a file’s contents meet the properties file format requirements, it can be parsed correctly by the Properties class. Here are more details for Pro...
2.2. Load From XML Files
Besides properties files, the Propertiesclass can also load XML files, which conform to the specific DTD specifications. Here’s an example for loading key-value pairs from an XML file, icons.xml: Now let’s load it:
We can use getProperty(String key) and getProperty(String key, String defaultValue)to get the value by its key. If the key-value pair exists, the two methods will both return the corresponding value. But if there’s no such key-value pair, the former will return null, and the latter will return defaultValueinstead: Note that although the Properties ...
We can use the setProperty()method to update an existing key-value pair or add a new key-value pair: Note that although the Properties class inherits the put() and putAll() methods from the Hashtable class, we wouldn’t recommend using them for the same reason as the get() method; only String values can be used in Properties. The code below won’t wo...
6.1. Store to Properties Files
The Properties class provides a store()method to output key-value pairs: The second parameter is for comments. If we don’t want to write any comments, we can simply use null for it.
6.2. Store to XML Files
TheProperties class also provides a storeToXML()method to output key-value pairs in XML format: The second parameter is the same as in the store()method.
A Properties object can contain another Propertiesobject as its default property list. The default property list will be searched if the property key isn’t found in the original one. Besides “app.properties,” we have another file, “default.properties,” on our classpath: default.properties: Example Code:
By default, properties files are expected to be ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) encoded, so properties with characters outside of the ISO-8859-1 shouldn’t generally be used. We can work around this limitation with the help of tools, such as the JDK native2ascii tool or explicit encodings on files, if necessary. For XML files, the loadFromXML() method and the ...
In this article, we discussed basic Properties class usage. We learned how to use Properties; load and store key-value pairs in both properties and XML format; operate key-value pairs in a Properties object, such as retrieve values, update values, and get its size; and finally, how to use a default list for a Propertiesobject. The complete source c...
It depends. Start with Basic I/O, take a look at Properties, take a look at Preferences API and maybe even Java API for XML Processing and Java Architecture for XML Binding. And if none of those meet your particular needs, you could even look at using some kind of Database. edited Apr 29, 2013 at 20:18.
Dec 5, 2022 · Below is a sample Java program which demonstrate you how to retrieve/read config.properties values in Java. For update follow this tutorial. Another must read: Read config.properties value using Spring “singleton” Scope in your Java Enterprise Application.
In this article, we will quickly discuss how to develop a simple Spring boot application using Java-based configuration. We use @Configuration and @Bean annotations to develop a spring boot standalone in-memory application.
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Jul 5, 2021 · Also, we use Java Config to create some initial data for the API and learned the basic HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE). Our API was built using the MVC standard and was divided into layers using Spring JPA (model) and Spring Web (controller) to implement the REST controllers.
