So far, I have this project where I read in a properties file using PropertiesConfiguration (from Apache), edit the values I would like to edit, and then save change to the file. It keeps the comments and formatting and such, but one thing it does change is taking the multi-line values formatted like this:
key=value1,\
value2,\
value3
and turns it into the array style:
key=value1,value2,value3
I would like to be able to print those lines formatted as the were before.
I did this via this method:
PropertiesConfiguration config = new PropertiesConfiguration(configFile);
config.setProperty(key,value);
config.save();
I created a work around in case anyone else needs this functionality. Also, there is probably a better way to do this, but this solution currently works for me.
First, set your PropertiesConfiguration delimiter to the new line character like so:
PropertiesConfiguration config = new PropertiesConfiguration(configFile);
config.setListDelimiter('\n');
Then you will need to iterate through and update all properties (to set the format):
Iterator<String> keys = config.getKeys();
while (keys.hasNext()) {
String key = keys.next();
config.setProperty(key,setPropertyFormatter(key, config.getProperty(key))) ;
}
use this method to format your value list data (as shown above):
private List<String> setPropertyFormatter(String key, Object list) {
List<String> tempProperties = new ArrayList<>();
Iterator<?> propertyIterator = PropertyConverter.toIterator(list, '\n');;
String indent = new String(new char[key.length() + 1]).replace('\0', ' ');
Boolean firstIteration = true;
while (propertyIterator.hasNext()) {
String value = propertyIterator.next().toString();
Boolean lastIteration = !propertyIterator.hasNext();
if(firstIteration && lastIteration) {
tempProperties.add(value);
continue;
}
if(firstIteration) {
tempProperties.add(value + ",\\");
firstIteration = false;
continue;
}
if (lastIteration) {
tempProperties.add(indent + value);
continue;
}
tempProperties.add(indent + value + ",\\");
}
return tempProperties;
}
Then it is going to be almost correct, except the save function takes the double backslash that is stored in the List, and turns it into 4 back slashes in the file! So you need to replace those with a single backslash. I did this like so:
try {
config.save(new File(filePath));
byte[] readIn = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(filePath));
String replacer = new String(readIn, StandardCharsets.UTF_8).replace("\\\\\\\\", "\\");
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(filePath, false), "UTF-8"));
bw.write(replacer);
bw.close();
} catch (ConfigurationException | IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}