Hi Robert,
Am 12.11.2016 um 03:47 schrieb Robert V Sasseen:
> Is there a straightforward way to get the full text of the properties file
> from a PropertiesConfiguration object in 2.0? In 1.x I could do
>
>
> PropertiesConfiguration propertiesConfiguration = new
> PropertiesConfiguration("my.properties");
>
> URL url = propertiesConfiguration.getURL();
> String cont = IOUtils.toString((InputStream)
> url.openConnection().getContent(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
>
>
> This worked for both properties file in my jar and in the filesystem on the
> classpath. But in 2.0 PropertiesConfiguration does not have a method getURL().
>
>
> Since PropertiesConfiguration has a (somewhat) complicated algorithm for
> finding properties in the classpath and filesystem, I want to let it carry
> out its algorithm, then ask it where it found the file, rather than having to
> try to understand and replicate the algorithm.
>
>
> If you're wondering why I want the text, I want to be able to show my user
> exactly what the file looks like, even if it's hidden away in a jar file. I
> know (a little) about PropertiesConfigurationLayout, but I'd prefer to just
> get the file text rather than reconstruct an approximation of it using that.
>
If you use a FileBasedConfigurationBuilder to create the
PropertiesConfiguration, you should be able to use the builder's
getFileHandler() method to obtain a FileHandler object. This object has
methods that allow you to retrieve the underlying file or URL.
Oliver
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