[ 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-480?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13215884#comment-13215884
 ] 

Oliver Heger commented on CONFIGURATION-480:
--------------------------------------------

This is strange. The exception stack trace you provided seems to indicate that 
a hierarchical configuration is used rather than PropertiesConfiguration (which 
is not hierarchical). Can you post the code which tries to load the manifest 
file?
                
> Reading Manifest files using PropertiesConfiguration
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CONFIGURATION-480
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-480
>             Project: Commons Configuration
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.7
>            Reporter: Chris Molozian
>
> I've searched through the documentation and online with Google. The 
> documentation for PropertiesConfiguration explains that it can parse files 
> with '=' or ':' or ' ' as delimiters. I have a MANIFEST.MF file with the 
> following format:
> {code:title=MANIFEST.MF|borderStyle=solid}
> Manifest-Version: 1.0
> Implementation-Title: webapp
> Implementation-Version: 0.0.1
> Created-By: Gradle 1.0-milestone-6
> Build-Jdk: 1.6.0_26
> {code}
> I've tried to use the PropertiesConfiguration to parse this file, assuming 
> that the ' ' delimiter would be used to divide key-value pairs. Instead I get 
> the following error:
> {code}
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Key for add operation must be defined!
>       at 
> org.apache.commons.configuration.tree.DefaultExpressionEngine.prepareAdd(DefaultExpressionEngine.java:420)
>       at 
> org.apache.commons.configuration.HierarchicalConfiguration.addPropertyDirect(HierarchicalConfiguration.java:383)
>       at 
> org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractHierarchicalFileConfiguration.addPropertyDirect(AbstractHierarchicalFileConfiguration.java:147)
>       at 
> org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractConfiguration.addPropertyValues(AbstractConfiguration.java:423)
>       at 
> org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractConfiguration.append(AbstractConfiguration.java:1271)
> {code}
> At the moment I've created a (very rough) custom PropertiesReader as 
> suggested by the User Guide for handling "unconventional formats".
> {code}
> private static class ManifestPropertiesReader
>             extends PropertiesConfiguration.PropertiesReader {
>     public ManifestPropertiesReader(final Reader in, final char delimiter) {
>         super(in, delimiter);
>     }
>     @Override
>     protected void parseProperty(final String line) {
>         final int pos = line.indexOf(':');
>         final String key = line.substring(0, pos).trim();
>         final String value = line.substring(pos + 1).trim();
>         initPropertyName(key);
>         initPropertyValue(value);
>     }
> }
> {code}
> And:
> {code}
> private static class ManifestIOFactory
>         extends PropertiesConfiguration.DefaultIOFactory {
>     /** Use a custom {@code PropertiesReader} for Manifest files. */
>     @Override
>     public PropertiesReader createPropertiesReader(final Reader in,
>             final char delimiter) {
>         return new ManifestPropertiesReader(in, delimiter);
>     }
> }
> {code}
> Should all this be necessary to parse MANIFEST.MF files or have I missed 
> something?

--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

        

Reply via email to