java.util.
Properties
examples
CSE219, Computer Science III
Stony Brook University
http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~cse219
java.util.Properties
Java properties files are used to store project
configuration data or settings.
These can be .properties files or .xml files
Example: config.properties
#Fri March 6 12:32:35 MYT 2015
database=localhost
dbuser=paul
dbpassword=password
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import java.util.Properties;
import java.io.InputStream; Load a properties file
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
public class ReadProperties {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Properties prop = new Properties();
InputStream input = null;
try {
input = new FileInputStream("config.properties");
// load a properties file
prop.load(input);
// get the property value and print it out
System.out.println(prop.getProperty("database"));
System.out.println(prop.getProperty("dbuser"));
System.out.println(prop.getProperty("dbpassword"));
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (input != null) {
try {
input.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
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}
import java.util.Properties;
import java.io.FileOutputStream; Write to properties file
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
public class WriteProperties {
public static void main(String[] args) {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Properties prop = new Properties();
OutputStream output = null;
try {
output = new FileOutputStream("config.properties");
// set the properties value
prop.setProperty("database", "localhost");
prop.setProperty("dbuser", "mkyong");
prop.setProperty("dbpassword", "password");
// save properties to project root folder
prop.store(output, null);
} catch (IOException io) {
io.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (output != null) {
try {
output.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
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}
Also in XML: properties.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">
<properties>
<entry key="database">localhost</entry>
<entry key="dbuser">paul</entry>
<entry key="dbpassword">password</entry>
</properties>
In Java:
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.loadFromXML(fileInput);
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