This post gives you PropertiesFileReader utility class to use in your Java/Java EE projects. You can use this PropertiesFileReader utility class to load "config.properties" file and it provides getValue() API to retrieve a property value by key.
This is a common task for a developer to maintain project configuration data or settings in an external file, for example keeping JDBC database configurations or mail configurations in the config.properties file.
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import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.util.Properties; /** * @author Ramesh Fadatare * */ public class PropertiesFileReader { private static Properties prop = null; private static final String propFileName = "config.properties"; private static void loadPropValues() throws IOException { prop = new Properties(); InputStream inputStream = PropertiesFileReader.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(propFileName); prop.load(inputStream); if (inputStream == null) { throw new FileNotFoundException("property file '" + propFileName + "' not found in the classpath"); } } public static String getValue(String key) throws IOException { if (prop == null) { loadPropValues(); } return prop.getProperty(key); } public static String getValue(String key, String defaultvalue) throws IOException { if (prop == null) { loadPropValues(); } return prop.getProperty(key, defaultvalue); } }
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