Customizing the Properties Reader
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Key: CONFIGURATION-370
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-370
Project: Commons Configuration
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: 1.6
Environment: Properties File Reader.
Reporter: Andrew Hughes
Currently Commons Configuration does not offer support to handle non-standard
property file parsing. Inparticular, you can't parse properties where the key
has whitespace.
Taken from thread on mailing list:
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Howdy,
We've got legacy/shared property files for our config (i.e. can't change the
property files to solve this). We're trying to use commons-config but it has
difficulty dealing with our properties files as the key's contain whitespace.
Any help on how I can resolve this would be most welcomed :)
Example Property:
Welcome Message=Hello World
Cheers.
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Response:
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The current code does not seem to support whitespace in property keys.
PropertiesConfiguration uses PropertiesConfigurationLayout.load() for loading
and parsing configuration files, which in turn delegates to the inner class
PropertiesConfiguration.PropertiesReader. This class interprets all whitespace
as end markers of the property key.
It is probably not trivial to inject your own reader for properties files.
Maybe you can create a custom layout class derived from
PropertiesConfigurationLayout that overrides the load() method. You would have
to override PropertiesConfiguration.createLayout() to activate your new layout
class.
Given these problems it would probably be a good idea if the library offered
better support for customizing the properties reader. If you consider this
helpful, feel free to open an enhancement ticket in Jira [1].
Oliver
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