de.smartics.properties.spi.config.support
Class PropertiesHelper

java.lang.Object
  de.smartics.properties.spi.config.support.PropertiesHelper

public final class PropertiesHelper
     
     

      
      extends 
      
      Object
     
     

Simple utilities class to help on dealing with properties.

Constructor Summary

PropertiesHelper(ConfigurationKey<?> key)
Default constructor.

Method Summary

Properties	readProperties(ClassLoader classLoader, String resourceId) Reads the properties from the given class path location.
Properties	readProperties(String resourceId) Reads the properties from the thread context class path location.
Properties	readProperties(String resourceId, InputStream input) Reads the properties from the given stream.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PropertiesHelper

public PropertiesHelper(ConfigurationKey<?> key)

Default constructor.

Parameters:

key - the key to the configuration to load properties for.

Method Detail

readProperties

public Properties readProperties(String resourceId)

Reads the properties from the thread context class path location.

Parameters:

resourceId - the resource on the class path to read.

Returns:

the properties from the class path.

readProperties

public Properties readProperties(ClassLoader classLoader,
                                 String resourceId)

Reads the properties from the given class path location.

Parameters:

classLoader - the class loader to access the resource.

resourceId - the resource on the class path to read.

Returns:

the properties from the class path.

readProperties

public Properties readProperties(String resourceId,
                                 InputStream input)

Reads the properties from the given stream.

Closes the stream after the properties are read.

Parameters:

resourceId - the identifier of the stream. Used for error reporting.

input - the stream to read from.

Returns:

the properties from the stream.