Hi Alec, as commons contains quite a lot of components, it is best practice to include the component's name iln the subject to give a reader the context of your question.
Alec Swan wrote at Mittwoch, 17. Juni 2009 00:00: > I have a property file containing default configurations in a key=value > format. I also have another file with the same format which contains > overrides for some of the properties. I need to apply the overrides to the > default configuration while preserving the format and comments. I also > need to write the merged content to a string. > > I am using the following code, but the mergedContent contains the default > content and no overrides. I tried reversing the order in which I add > defaultConfig and overridingConfig to CompositeConfiguration, but still no > luck. > > PropertiesConfiguration mergedConfig = new > PropertiesConfiguration(); > CompositeConfiguration compositeConfig = new > CompositeConfiguration(defaultConfig); > mergedConfig = defaultConfig; > > compositeConfig.addConfiguration(overridingConfig); > > StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); > mergedConfig.save(writer); > String mergedContent = writer.toString(); > > What's wrong with the code above? You add the configurations in the wrong sequence. A configuration that contains default values should always added last, since the CompositeConfiguration will return the first found value for the requested key. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
