Java tutorial
import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.util.Enumeration; import java.util.Properties; /* Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.util.PropertyUtil Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ public class Main { /** * Sorts property list and print out each key=value pair prepended with * specific indentation. If indent is null, do not prepend with * indentation. * * The output string shows up in two styles, style 1 looks like * { key1=value1, key2=value2, key3=value3 } * * style 2 looks like * key1=value1 * key2=value2 * key3=value3 * where indent goes between the new line and the keys * * To get style 1, pass in a null indent * To get sytle 2, pass in non-null indent (whatever you want to go before * the key value) */ public static String sortProperties(Properties list, String indent) { int size = list == null ? 0 : list.size(); int count = 0; String[] array = new String[size]; String key; String value; StringBuffer buffer; // Calculate the number of properties in the property list and // build an array of all the property names. // We need to go thru the enumeration because Properties has a // recursive list of defaults. if (list != null) { for (Enumeration propertyNames = list.propertyNames(); propertyNames.hasMoreElements();) { if (count == size) { // need to expand the array size = size * 2; String[] expandedArray = new String[size]; System.arraycopy(array, 0, expandedArray, 0, count); array = expandedArray; } key = (String) propertyNames.nextElement(); array[count++] = key; } // now sort the array java.util.Arrays.sort(array, 0, count); } // now stringify the array buffer = new StringBuffer(); if (indent == null) buffer.append("{ "); for (int ictr = 0; ictr < count; ictr++) { if (ictr > 0 && indent == null) buffer.append(", "); key = array[ictr]; if (indent != null) buffer.append(indent); buffer.append(key); buffer.append("="); value = list.getProperty(key, "MISSING_VALUE"); buffer.append(value); if (indent != null) buffer.append("\n"); } if (indent == null) buffer.append(" }"); return buffer.toString(); } }