Didn't subscribe to list, found Oliver's kind reply on the archive site, don't
know how to reply to that directly, so I'm replying to my original message.
Oliver's suggestion worked fine, 2.0 code is:
FileBasedConfigurationBuilder<PropertiesConfiguration> builder
= new Configurations.propertiesBuilder("my.properties");
PropertiesConfiguration propertiesConfiguration =
builder.getConfiguration();
FileHandler fileHandler = builder.getFileHandler();
URL url = fileHandler.getURL();
String cont = IOUtils.toString((InputStream)
url.openConnection().getContent(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
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From: Robert V Sasseen <rvsass...@hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 6:47 PM
To: user@commons.apache.org
Subject: [configuration] reading full text of PropertiesConfiguration file in
2.0
Is there a straightforward way to get the full text of the properties file from
a PropertiesConfiguration object in 2.0? In 1.x I could do
PropertiesConfiguration propertiesConfiguration = new
PropertiesConfiguration("my.properties");
URL url = propertiesConfiguration.getURL();
String cont = IOUtils.toString((InputStream)
url.openConnection().getContent(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
This worked for both properties file in my jar and in the filesystem on the
classpath. But in 2.0 PropertiesConfiguration does not have a method getURL().
Since PropertiesConfiguration has a (somewhat) complicated algorithm for
finding properties in the classpath and filesystem, I want to let it carry out
its algorithm, then ask it where it found the file, rather than having to try
to understand and replicate the algorithm.
If you're wondering why I want the text, I want to be able to show my user
exactly what the file looks like, even if it's hidden away in a jar file. I
know (a little) about PropertiesConfigurationLayout, but I'd prefer to just get
the file text rather than reconstruct an approximation of it using that.
