Re: Setting a property for System.getProperty()
On 5/9/2013 10:53 AM, RVic wrote:
I inherited someones mountain of code wherein they use different idioms and ways of doing things than I typically do.
In one instance, there is a line of code:
System.getProperty("cn.env");
which, depending on what machine it is run on, has properties like "production" or "mirror"
Yet, I think this call, System.getProperty(), calls properties from the actual system, like (System.getProperty("user.home") or System.getProperty("file.separator").
So how can I set this on a particular machine (Ubuntu 12 in this case) for a value for cn.env?
java -Dcn.env=ZaphodBeeblebrox MyClass
.... is one way. See also System.setProperty(), which you could
use in a "launcher" class like
public class Launcher {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Get a value -- this takes one from the
// environment, but you could get as fancy
// as you like here.
String value = System.getenv("CN_ENV");
// Set the property.
System.setProperty("cn.env", value);
// Run the "real" main() method.
MyClass.main(args);
}
}
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