Save Properties to a file - Java File Path IO

Description

Save Properties to a file
Demo Code

import java.util.Properties;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

public class PersistentEcho {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String argString = "";
        boolean notProperty = true;

        // Are there arguments? 
        // If so retrieve them.
        if (args.length > 0) {
            for (String arg : args) {
                argString += arg + " ";
            }/*  w  ww .j a  v a  2 s  .com*/
            argString = argString.trim();
        }
        // No arguments, is there
        // an environment variable?
        // If so, //retrieve it.
        else if ((argString = System.getenv("PERSISTENTECHO")) != null) {
        }
        // No environment variable
        // either. Retrieve property value.
        else {
            notProperty = false;
            // Set argString to null.
            // If it's still null after
            // we exit the try block,
            // we've failed to retrieve
            // the property value.
            argString = null;
            FileInputStream fileInputStream = null;
            try {
                fileInputStream = new FileInputStream("PersistentEcho.txt");
                Properties inProperties = new Properties();
                inProperties.load(fileInputStream);
                argString = inProperties.getProperty("argString");
            } catch (IOException e) {
                System.err.println("Can't read property file.");
                System.exit(1);
            } finally {
                if (fileInputStream != null) {
                    try {
                        fileInputStream.close();
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                    }
                    ;
                }
            }
        }
        if (argString == null) {
            System.err.println("Couldn't find argString property");
            System.exit(1);
        }

        // Somehow, we got the
        // value. Echo it already!
        System.out.println(argString);

        // If we didn't retrieve the
        // value from the property,
        // save it //in the property.
        if (notProperty) {
            Properties outProperties = new Properties();
            outProperties.setProperty("argString", argString);
            FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = null;
            try {
                fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(
                        "PersistentEcho.txt");
                outProperties.store(fileOutputStream,
                        "PersistentEcho properties");
            } catch (IOException e) {
            } finally {
                if (fileOutputStream != null) {
                    try {
                        fileOutputStream.close();
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                    }
                    ;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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Save Properties to a file - Java File Path IO

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