org.apache.commons.configuration
Class BaseConfiguration

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractConfiguration
      org.apache.commons.configuration.BaseConfiguration

All Implemented Interfaces:

Configuration

Direct Known Subclasses:

AbstractFileConfiguration

public class BaseConfiguration

extends AbstractConfiguration

Basic configuration classe. Stores the configuration data but does not provide any load or save functions. If you want to load your Configuration from a file use PropertiesConfiguration or XmlConfiguration. This class extends normal Java properties by adding the possibility to use the same key many times concatenating the value strings instead of overwriting them.

Version:

$Id: BaseConfiguration.java,v 1.8 2004/07/05 09:54:17 ebourg Exp $

Author:

Stefano Mazzocchi, Jon S. Stevens, Dave Bryson, Geir Magnusson Jr., Leon Messerschmidt, Kent Johnson, Daniel Rall, Ilkka Priha, Jason van Zyl, Martin Poeschl, Henning P. Schmiedehausen, Konstantin Shaposhnikov, Oliver Heger

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes inherited from class org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractConfiguration

AbstractConfiguration.PropertiesTokenizer

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractConfiguration

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Constructor Summary

BaseConfiguration()
Empty constructor.

Method Summary

protected void	addPropertyDirect(String key, Object obj) Adds a key/value pair to the map.
void	clearProperty(String key) Clear a property in the configuration.
boolean	containsKey(String key) check if the configuration contains the key
Iterator	getKeys() Get the list of the keys contained in the configuration repository.
protected Object	getPropertyDirect(String key) Read property from underlying map.
boolean	isEmpty() Check if the configuration is empty

Methods inherited from class org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractConfiguration

addProperty, getBigDecimal, getBigDecimal, getBigInteger, getBigInteger, getBoolean, getBoolean, getBoolean, getByte, getByte, getByte, getDelimiter, getDouble, getDouble, getDouble, getFloat, getFloat, getFloat, getInt, getInt, getInteger, getKeys, getList, getList, getLong, getLong, getLong, getProperties, getProperties, getProperty, getShort, getShort, getShort, getString, getString, getStringArray, getVector, getVector, interpolate, interpolateHelper, isThrowExceptionOnMissing, setDelimiter, setProperty, setThrowExceptionOnMissing, split, subset

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BaseConfiguration

public BaseConfiguration()

Empty constructor. You must add all the values to this configuration.

Method Detail

addPropertyDirect

protected void addPropertyDirect(String key,
                                 Object obj)

Adds a key/value pair to the map. This routine does no magic morphing. It ensures the keylist is maintained

Specified by:

addPropertyDirect in class AbstractConfiguration

Parameters:

key - key to use for mapping

obj - object to store

getPropertyDirect

protected Object getPropertyDirect(String key)

Read property from underlying map.

Specified by:

getPropertyDirect in class AbstractConfiguration

Parameters:

key - key to use for mapping

Returns:

object associated with the given configuration key.

isEmpty

public boolean isEmpty()

Check if the configuration is empty

Specified by:

isEmpty in interface Configuration

Specified by:

isEmpty in class AbstractConfiguration

Returns:

true if Configuration is empty, false otherwise.

containsKey

public boolean containsKey(String key)

check if the configuration contains the key

Specified by:

containsKey in interface Configuration

Specified by:

containsKey in class AbstractConfiguration

Parameters:

key - the configuration key

Returns:

true if Configuration contain given key, false otherwise.

clearProperty

public void clearProperty(String key)

Clear a property in the configuration.

Specified by:

clearProperty in interface Configuration

Specified by:

clearProperty in class AbstractConfiguration

Parameters:

key - the key to remove along with corresponding value.

getKeys

public Iterator getKeys()

Get the list of the keys contained in the configuration repository.

Specified by:

getKeys in interface Configuration

Specified by:

getKeys in class AbstractConfiguration

Returns:

An Iterator.