Re: xml property file...for say db connections?

<timasmith@hotmail.com> wrote...


I guess you have these properties in a special object?

Then you can simply use java.beans.XMLCoder and XMLDecoder to serialize that
object in XML.

I found a hack I made several years ago for an app, where I easily could
shift between different connections, not only Oracle and MS Access... ;-)

It's not pretty, but I don't have the time to fix it.

Hopefully you can look at it and see if it's of any use to you.

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  private void saveConnections ()
  {
    try
    {
      XMLEncoder e =
        new XMLEncoder(
          new BufferedOutputStream(
            new FileOutputStream("Connections.xml")));

      Vector cbm = new Vector(connections.values());

      int antal = cbm.size();

      for (int i = 0; i < antal; i++)
      {
        ConnectionProperty c =
          (ConnectionProperty)
             cbm.get(i);
        e.writeObject(c);
      }

      e.close();
    }
    catch (FileNotFoundException fex)
    {
      fex.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

  private void loadConnections ()
  {
    java.beans.XMLDecoder d = null;

    try
    {
      d = new XMLDecoder(
          new BufferedInputStream(
            new FileInputStream("Connections.xml")));

      while (true)
      {
        ConnectionProperty ci = (ConnectionProperty) d.readObject();
        connections.put(ci.getLabel(), ci);
      }
    }
    catch (FileNotFoundException fex)
    {
      fex.printStackTrace();
    }
    catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException aix)
    {
      d.close();
    }
  }

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And the class I used for storing the
Connection properties...

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import java.io.*;

public class ConnectionProperty implements Serializable
{
  private String label;
  private String driver;
  private String jar;
  private String connectionString;

  public ConnectionProperty (String l, String d, String c, String j)
  {
    label = l;
    driver = d;
    connectionString = c;
    jar = j;
  }

  public ConnectionProperty ()
  {
    // For the "Serializability"
  }

  public String toString()
  {
    return label;
  }

  public String getDriver()
  {
    return driver;
  }

  public void setDriver(String d)
  {
    driver = d;
  }

  public String getJar()
  {
    return jar;
  }

  public void setJar(String d)
  {
    jar = d;
  }

  public String getLabel()
  {
    return label;
  }

  public void setLabel(String s)
  {
    label = s;
  }

  public String getConnectionString()
  {
    return connectionString;
  }

  public void setConnectionString(String c)
  {
    connectionString = c;
  }
}

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// Bjorn A

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