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Oliver Heger resolved CONFIGURATION-370.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 1.7

PropertiesConfiguration now supports setting an {{IOFactory}}, through which 
custom properties readers and writers can be injected.

The user's guide was updated to cover this new feature (there is a new 
subsection in the section about {{PropertiesConfiguration}}).

> 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
>            Assignee: Oliver Heger
>             Fix For: 1.7
>
>
> 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:
> {quote}
> 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.
> {quote}
> Response:
> {quote}
> 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
> {quote}

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