org.springframework.util
Interface PropertiesPersister

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultPropertiesPersister

public interface PropertiesPersister

Strategy interface for persisting java.util.Properties, allowing for pluggable parsing strategies.

The default implementation is DefaultPropertiesPersister, providing java.util.Properties' native parsing, but allowing for reading from any Reader and writing to any Writer, for example to specify a charset for a properties file.

Since:

10.03.2004

Author:

Juergen Hoeller

See Also:

DefaultPropertiesPersister, Properties

Method Summary

void	load(java.util.Properties props, java.io.InputStream is) Load properties from the given InputStream into the given Properties object.
void	load(java.util.Properties props, java.io.Reader reader) Load properties from the given Reader into the given Properties object.
void	store(java.util.Properties props, java.io.OutputStream os, java.lang.String header) Write the contents of the given Properties object to the given OutputStream.
void	store(java.util.Properties props, java.io.Writer writer, java.lang.String header) Write the contents of the given Properties object to the given Writer.

Method Detail

load

public void load(java.util.Properties props,
                 java.io.InputStream is)
          throws java.io.IOException

Load properties from the given InputStream into the given Properties object.

Parameters:

props - the Properties object to load into

is - the InputStream to load from

Throws:

java.io.IOException - in case of I/O errors

See Also:

Properties.load(java.io.InputStream)

load

public void load(java.util.Properties props,
                 java.io.Reader reader)
          throws java.io.IOException

Load properties from the given Reader into the given Properties object.

Parameters:

props - the Properties object to load into

reader - the Reader to load from

Throws:

java.io.IOException - in case of I/O errors

store

public void store(java.util.Properties props,
                  java.io.OutputStream os,
                  java.lang.String header)
           throws java.io.IOException

Write the contents of the given Properties object to the given OutputStream.

Parameters:

props - the Properties object to store

os - the OutputStream to write to

header - the description of the property list

Throws:

java.io.IOException - in case of I/O errors

See Also:

Properties.store(java.io.OutputStream, java.lang.String)

store

public void store(java.util.Properties props,
                  java.io.Writer writer,
                  java.lang.String header)
           throws java.io.IOException

Write the contents of the given Properties object to the given Writer.

Parameters:

props - the Properties object to store

writer - the Writer to write to

header - the description of the property list

Throws:

java.io.IOException - in case of I/O errors