On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:46:04 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> I would vote against this change. Per java properties spec >> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/10792 >> >> >> White space following the property value is not ignored, and is treated as >> part of the property value. >> >> >> This change might break localization or messages where trailing whitespace >> is important (example: "Label: ") >> >> edit: sorry, the link above is not a spec. looking at the >> Properties.load(Reader) javadoc: >> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#load(java.io.Reader) >> >> >> Any white space after the key is skipped; if the first non-white space >> character after the key is '=' or ':', then it is ignored and any white >> space characters after it are also skipped. All remaining characters on the >> line become part of the associated element string; > > @andy-goryachev-oracle Oh, I did not know that. Is this really how it is > implemented, or is there a discrepancy between the spec and the > implementation? The haphazard placement of trailing spaces seems to indicate > that they are ignored. @magicus : no, this is how Properties were working from day one. package goryachev.research; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.StringReader; import java.util.Properties; public class TestProperties { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { String text = "key= value "; Properties p = new Properties(); p.load(new StringReader(text)); System.out.println("value=[" +p.getProperty("key") + "]"); } } outputs: value=[value ] ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10792
