Loading property file

I'm not sure why a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurator wouldn't have been the correct choice. For me, this is more convenient than bundling the information in via Maven, since I can more easily test arbitrary configurations from whatever machine I'm on using a -D property. Here is the example i just pulled out from my previous project if you wonder how to use this. This example is for loading multiple properties files but the concept is same. Good luck. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 10 years, 2 months ago. Active 9 years ago. Viewed 18k times. I suggested use the propertyconfigurer and use maven profiles to generate the environment specific build Can you please advise which one suits which case?

Sandeep Sandeep 2 2 gold badges 5 5 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I forgot to press submit on this answer, so now it duplicates some information that others have provided. If you want to read properties file from the classpath, use the following function.

This requirement is common in web applications. Posted in Java. Quick Programming Tips A collection of programming wisdom! Home Privacy Policy Facebook Contact. How to Load Properties File in Java Properties file is text file commonly used to store configuration data in Java programs. Following are the main functions in the sample program, createEmailProperties - This creates a new properties file named email. This is no longer developed actively.

Jesse noller has created a project from this recipe with some fixes not available here. Author recommends that project to anyone using this recipe. Andy Quiroz Andy Quiroz 6 6 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. But it is not based on java. A line with only a key according to the rules above is also fine.

In such case, the value is considered as the empty string. This is a line parser. It parses the contents like by line. I've packaged it into the class that returns a dict of all the properties defined. RawConfigParser Without next line the property names will be lowercased config.

Alexander Pogrebnyak Alexander Pogrebnyak If you need to read all values from a section in properties file in a simple manner: Your config. Vineet Singh Vineet Singh 39 4 4 bronze badges. It is highly recommended to share some code sample.

For now your answer is very poor — Nikolai Shevchenko. NikolayShevchenko sorry for poor formatting , I've updated my answer — Vineet Singh. Anand Joshi Anand Joshi 91 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. Hope it helps — Anand Joshi. Take a version. Wolfgang Fahl Wolfgang Fahl What does that mean? Please show your config file. Anoop Isaac Anoop Isaac 12 12 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. The code doesn't close the file object, also link only answer is not welcome.

That solution does not cover multi-line values or values that include an equal sign. Jeremy Caney 5, 26 26 gold badges 39 39 silver badges 66 66 bronze badges.

Agrim Bansal Agrim Bansal 11 1 1 bronze badge. ConfigParser config. This is what i had written to parse file and set it as env variables which skips comments and non key value lines added switches to specify hg:d -h or --help print usage summary -c Specify char that identifies comment -s Separator between key and value in prop file and specify properties file that needs to be parsed eg : python EnvParamSet.

DGrady DGrady 12 12 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. Memin Memin 2, 22 22 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. Please remove this duplicate posting. Vaibhav Shukla Vaibhav Shukla 1. This is an ini file, properties file will not have no section headers — Akshay. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.

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