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+/*
+ *
+ * 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.
+ *
+ */
+package org.apache.qpid.util;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+/**
+ * PropertiesHelper defines some static methods which are useful when working with properties
+ * files.
+ *
+ * <p><table id="crc"><caption>CRC Card</caption>
+ * <tr><th> Responsibilities <th> Collaborations
+ * <tr><td> Read properties from an input stream
+ * <tr><td> Read properties from a file
+ * <tr><td> Read properties from a URL
+ * <tr><td> Read properties given a path to a file
+ * <tr><td> Trim any whitespace from property values
+ * </table>
+ */
+public class PropertiesUtils
+{
+ /** Used for logging. */
+ private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PropertiesUtils.class);
+
+ /**
+ * Get properties from an input stream.
+ *
+ * @param is The input stream.
+ *
+ * @return The properties loaded from the input stream.
+ *
+ * @throws IOException If the is an I/O error reading from the stream.
+ */
+ public static Properties getProperties(InputStream is) throws IOException
+ {
+ log.debug("getProperties(InputStream): called");
+
+ // Create properties object laoded from input stream
+ Properties properties = new Properties();
+
+ properties.load(is);
+
+ return properties;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Get properties from a file.
+ *
+ * @param file The file.
+ *
+ * @return The properties loaded from the file.
+ *
+ * @throws IOException If there is an I/O error reading from the file.
+ */
+ public static Properties getProperties(File file) throws IOException
+ {
+ log.debug("getProperties(File): called");
+
+ // Open the file as an input stream
+ InputStream is = new FileInputStream(file);
+
+ // Create properties object loaded from the stream
+ Properties properties = getProperties(is);
+
+ // Close the file
+ is.close();
+
+ return properties;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Get properties from a url.
+ *
+ * @param url The URL.
+ *
+ * @return The properties loaded from the url.
+ *
+ * @throws IOException If there is an I/O error reading from the URL.
+ */
+ public static Properties getProperties(URL url) throws IOException
+ {
+ log.debug("getProperties(URL): called");
+
+ // Open the URL as an input stream
+ InputStream is = url.openStream();
+
+ // Create properties object loaded from the stream
+ Properties properties = getProperties(is);
+
+ // Close the url
+ is.close();
+
+ return properties;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Get properties from a path name. The path name may refer to either a file or a URL.
+ *
+ * @param pathname The path name.
+ *
+ * @return The properties loaded from the file or URL.
+ *
+ * @throws IOException If there is an I/O error reading from the URL or file named by the path.
+ */
+ public static Properties getProperties(String pathname) throws IOException
+ {
+ log.debug("getProperties(String): called");
+
+ // Check that the path is not null
+ if (pathname == null)
+ {
+ return null;
+ }
+
+ // Check if the path is a URL
+ if (isURL(pathname))
+ {
+ // The path is a URL
+ return getProperties(new URL(pathname));
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ // Assume the path is a file name
+ return getProperties(new File(pathname));
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Trims whitespace from property values. This method returns a new set of properties
+ * the same as the properties specified as an argument but with any white space removed by
+ * the {@link java.lang.String#trim} method.
+ *
+ * @param properties The properties to trim whitespace from.
+ *
+ * @return The white space trimmed properties.
+ */
+ public static Properties trim(Properties properties)
+ {
+ Properties trimmedProperties = new Properties();
+
+ // Loop over all the properties
+ for (Iterator i = properties.keySet().iterator(); i.hasNext();)
+ {
+ String next = (String) i.next();
+ String nextValue = properties.getProperty(next);
+
+ // Trim the value if it is not null
+ if (nextValue != null)
+ {
+ nextValue.trim();
+ }
+
+ // Store the trimmed value in the trimmed properties
+ trimmedProperties.setProperty(next, nextValue);
+ }
+
+ return trimmedProperties;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Helper method. Guesses whether a string is a URL or not. A String is considered to be a url if it begins with
+ * http:, ftp:, or uucp:.
+ *
+ * @param name The string to test for being a URL.
+ *
+ * @return True if the string is a URL and false if not.
+ */
+ private static boolean isURL(String name)
+ {
+ return (name.toLowerCase().startsWith("http:") || name.toLowerCase().startsWith("ftp:")
+ || name.toLowerCase().startsWith("uucp:"));
+ }
+}