# Properties Class Reference

List of all members.

## Public Member Functions

| Properties ()
| Create new instance.
| ~Properties ()
| Destructor.
void | load (InputStreamPtr inStream)
| Reads a property list (key and element pairs) from the input stream.
LogString | setProperty (const LogString &key, const LogString &value)
| Calls Properties::put.
LogString | put (const LogString &key, const LogString &value)
| Puts a property value into the collection.
LogString | getProperty (const LogString &key) const
| Calls Properties::get.
LogString | get (const LogString &key) const
| Gets a property value.
std::vector< LogString > | propertyNames () const
| Returns an enumeration of all the keys in this property list, including distinct keys in the default property list if a key of the same name has not already been found from the main properties list.

## Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Properties | ( |  | ) |

| Create new instance.

~Properties | ( |  | ) |

| Destructor.

## Member Function Documentation

LogString get | ( | const LogString & | key | ) | const

Gets a property value.

Parameters:

  | key | the property key.

Returns:
  the value in this property list with the specified key value or empty string.

LogString getProperty | ( | const LogString & | key | ) | const

Calls Properties::get.

Parameters:

  | key | the property key.

Returns:
  the value in this property list with the specified key value or empty string.

void load | ( | InputStreamPtr | inStream | ) |

Reads a property list (key and element pairs) from the input stream.

The stream is assumed to be using the ISO 8859-1 character encoding.

Every property occupies one line of the input stream. Each line is terminated by a line terminator (`\n` or `\r` or `\r\n`). Lines from the input stream are processed until end of file is reached on the input stream.

A line that contains only whitespace or whose first non-whitespace character is an ASCII `#` or `!` is ignored (thus, `#` or `!` indicate comment lines).

Every line other than a blank line or a comment line describes one property to be added to the table (except that if a line ends with \, then the following line, if it exists, is treated as a continuation line, as described below). The key consists of all the characters in the line starting with the first non-whitespace character and up to, but not including, the first ASCII `=`, `:`, or whitespace character. All of the key termination characters may be included in the key by preceding them with a `\`. Any whitespace after the key is skipped; if the first non-whitespace character after the key is `=` or `:`, then it is ignored and any whitespace characters after it are also skipped. All remaining characters on the line become part of the associated element string. Within the element string, the ASCII escape sequences `\t`, `\n`, `\r`, `\`, `\"`, `\'`, `\` (a backslash and a space), and `\uxxxx` are recognized and converted to single characters. Moreover, if the last character on the line is `\`, then the next line is treated as a continuation of the current line; the `\` and line terminator are simply discarded, and any leading whitespace characters on the continuation line are also discarded and are not part of the element string.

As an example, each of the following four lines specifies the key "Truth" and the associated element value "Beauty":

     Truth = Beauty
            Truth:Beauty
     Truth         :Beauty

As another example, the following three lines specify a single property:

     fruits           apple, banana, pear, \
                                      cantaloupe, watermelon, \
                                      kiwi, mango

The key is "<code>fruits</code>" and the associated element is:

    "apple, banana, pear, cantaloupe, watermelon, kiwi, mango"

Note that a space appears before each \ so that a space will appear after each comma in the final result; the \, line terminator, and leading whitespace on the continuation line are merely discarded and are not replaced by one or more other characters.

As a third example, the line:

    cheeses

specifies that the key is "<code>cheeses</code>" and the associated element is the empty string.

Parameters:

  | inStream | the input stream.

Exceptions:

  | IOException | if an error occurred when reading from the input stream.

std::vector<LogString> propertyNames | ( |  | ) | const

Returns an enumeration of all the keys in this property list, including distinct keys in the default property list if a key of the same name has not already been found from the main properties list.

Returns:
  an array of all the keys in this property list, including the keys in the default property list.

LogString put | ( | const LogString & | key,
|  | const LogString & | value
| ) |

Puts a property value into the collection.

Parameters:

  | key | the key to be placed into this property list.
  | value | the value corresponding to key.

Returns:
  the previous value of the specified key in this property list, or an empty string if it did not have one.

LogString setProperty | ( | const LogString & | key,
|  | const LogString & | value
| ) |

Calls Properties::put.

Parameters:

  | key | the key to be placed into this property list.
  | value | the value corresponding to key.

Returns:
  the previous value of the specified key in this property list, or an empty string if it did not have one.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

- properties.h