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On 15/07/2008, at 7:40 AM, Oliver Heger wrote:

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Michael Robinson schrieb:
Hi,

I'm writing a program that must load, search, edit and save Mac OS X plist files.

I was attempting to use apple's NS* foundation classes, but I couldn't work out how to write to the plist files (maybe I'm just stupid).

I searched around the internet and was overjoyed to find apache.commons.configuration.

I've played with it for the past few days, trying to figure out how I'm meant to get data out of the plist files I'm working with.
Have you looked at the unit tests for the configuration project?
Commons projects generally have pretty good unit test coverage, which means that there is almost certainly an example of reading a plist file and extracting a value from it in there somewhere. In general, the unit tests for a project are a good source of examples when the explicit user examples and tutorials don't cover what you need to do. The unit tests can be fetched from the Apache subversion system using the url that is in the left-hand navigation bar.
Regards,
Simon

You can find the test class for XMLPropertyListConfiguration at [1]. It reads a test file [2] and evaluates the properties contained.

I assume your concrete problem is due to the fact that the value of the "SandwichFillings" key is an array, which obviously complicates things. Have a look at the testNestedArray() method in [1], which deals with nested arrays.

Querying the value of an array should result in a List. You can dump the content of this list to see how it is structured.

HTH
Oliver

[1] 
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/configuration/trunk/src/test/org/apache/commons/configuration/plist/TestXMLPropertyListConfiguration.java
[2] 
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/configuration/trunk/conf/test.plist.xml

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I've removed that line from the plist.xml file, and it loads now.

I should be able to learn enough from the test methods now, I don't need that line.

Again, thank you very much!


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