Hi Rafael,
You might have missed the update added by JDK-8231640
<https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8231640> Canonical property storage
The comment string can be provided either by a separate method
`store(Writer, String)` or by a system property.
Regards, Roger
On 11/25/24 4:53 PM, Rafael Winterhalter wrote:
Hello,
I find the java.util.Properties class to be quite convenient when
writing minor collections of key-values. One unfortunate implication
of the store method is that it always contains a comment line with the
current date. The comment is never deserialized when loading the file,
but the file hash is of course always changed, even if the content is
identical at a later time. This can have unfortunate implications when
the file hash is relevant to some form of cashing or validation mechanism.
Would it be a good idea to add an overload that allows disabling the
date comment? This would only require minimal code changes and the
storage format would become reproducible. The key-values are already
sorted by their key. The date can be fixed by a system property, but
this is not always possible to define if the writer is not in control
of the command line. Right now I have to reimplement the
Properties::store method only to exclude this line.
Thanks for your consideration and opinion,
Rafael
