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  25 
  26 package java.util;
  27 
  28 import java.io.IOException;
  29 import java.io.PrintStream;
  30 import java.io.PrintWriter;
  31 import java.io.InputStream;
  32 import java.io.OutputStream;
  33 import java.io.Reader;
  34 import java.io.Writer;
  35 import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
  36 import java.io.BufferedWriter;
  37 import java.lang.reflect.*;
  38 
  39 /**
  40  * The <code>Properties</code> class represents a persistent set of
  41  * properties. The <code>Properties</code> can be saved to a stream
  42  * or loaded from a stream. Each key and its corresponding value in
  43  * the property list is a string.
  44  * <p>
  45  * A property list can contain another property list as its
  46  * "defaults"; this second property list is searched if
  47  * the property key is not found in the original property list.
  48  * <p>
  49  * Because <code>Properties</code> inherits from <code>Hashtable</code>, the
  50  * <code>put</code> and <code>putAll</code> methods can be applied to a
  51  * <code>Properties</code> object.  Their use is strongly discouraged as they
  52  * allow the caller to insert entries whose keys or values are not
  53  * <code>Strings</code>.  The <code>setProperty</code> method should be used
  54  * instead.  If the <code>store</code> or <code>save</code> method is called
  55  * on a "compromised" <code>Properties</code> object that contains a
  56  * non-<code>String</code> key or value, the call will fail. Similarly,
  57  * the call to the <code>propertyNames</code> or <code>list</code> method
  58  * will fail if it is called on a "compromised" <code>Properties</code>
  59  * object that contains a non-<code>String</code> key.
  60  *
  61  * <p>
  62  * The {@link #load(java.io.Reader) load(Reader)} <tt>/</tt>
  63  * {@link #store(java.io.Writer, java.lang.String) store(Writer, String)}
  64  * methods load and store properties from and to a character based stream
  65  * in a simple line-oriented format specified below.
  66  *
  67  * The {@link #load(java.io.InputStream) load(InputStream)} <tt>/</tt>
  68  * {@link #store(java.io.OutputStream, java.lang.String) store(OutputStream, String)}
  69  * methods work the same way as the load(Reader)/store(Writer, String) pair, except
  70  * the input/output stream is encoded in ISO 8859-1 character encoding.
  71  * Characters that cannot be directly represented in this encoding can be written using
  72  * Unicode escapes as defined in section 3.3 of
  73  * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>;
  74  * only a single 'u' character is allowed in an escape
  75  * sequence. The native2ascii tool can be used to convert property files to and
  76  * from other character encodings.
  77  *
  78  * <p> The {@link #loadFromXML(InputStream)} and {@link
  79  * #storeToXML(OutputStream, String, String)} methods load and store properties


 129      */
 130     protected Properties defaults;
 131 
 132     /**
 133      * Creates an empty property list with no default values.
 134      */
 135     public Properties() {
 136         this(null);
 137     }
 138 
 139     /**
 140      * Creates an empty property list with the specified defaults.
 141      *
 142      * @param   defaults   the defaults.
 143      */
 144     public Properties(Properties defaults) {
 145         this.defaults = defaults;
 146     }
 147 
 148     /**
 149      * Calls the <tt>Hashtable</tt> method <code>put</code>. Provided for
 150      * parallelism with the <tt>getProperty</tt> method. Enforces use of
 151      * strings for property keys and values. The value returned is the
 152      * result of the <tt>Hashtable</tt> call to <code>put</code>.
 153      *
 154      * @param key the key to be placed into this property list.
 155      * @param value the value corresponding to <tt>key</tt>.
 156      * @return     the previous value of the specified key in this property
 157      *             list, or <code>null</code> if it did not have one.
 158      * @see #getProperty
 159      * @since    1.2
 160      */
 161     public synchronized Object setProperty(String key, String value) {
 162         return put(key, value);
 163     }
 164 
 165 
 166     /**
 167      * Reads a property list (key and element pairs) from the input
 168      * character stream in a simple line-oriented format.
 169      * <p>
 170      * Properties are processed in terms of lines. There are two
 171      * kinds of line, <i>natural lines</i> and <i>logical lines</i>.
 172      * A natural line is defined as a line of
 173      * characters that is terminated either by a set of line terminator
 174      * characters (<code>\n</code> or <code>\r</code> or <code>\r\n</code>)
 175      * or by the end of the stream. A natural line may be either a blank line,
 176      * a comment line, or hold all or some of a key-element pair. A logical
 177      * line holds all the data of a key-element pair, which may be spread
 178      * out across several adjacent natural lines by escaping
 179      * the line terminator sequence with a backslash character
 180      * <code>\</code>.  Note that a comment line cannot be extended
 181      * in this manner; every natural line that is a comment must have
 182      * its own comment indicator, as described below. Lines are read from
 183      * input until the end of the stream is reached.
 184      *
 185      * <p>
 186      * A natural line that contains only white space characters is
 187      * considered blank and is ignored.  A comment line has an ASCII
 188      * <code>'#'</code> or <code>'!'</code> as its first non-white
 189      * space character; comment lines are also ignored and do not
 190      * encode key-element information.  In addition to line
 191      * terminators, this format considers the characters space
 192      * (<code>' '</code>, <code>'&#92;u0020'</code>), tab
 193      * (<code>'\t'</code>, <code>'&#92;u0009'</code>), and form feed
 194      * (<code>'\f'</code>, <code>'&#92;u000C'</code>) to be white
 195      * space.
 196      *
 197      * <p>
 198      * If a logical line is spread across several natural lines, the
 199      * backslash escaping the line terminator sequence, the line
 200      * terminator sequence, and any white space at the start of the
 201      * following line have no affect on the key or element values.
 202      * The remainder of the discussion of key and element parsing
 203      * (when loading) will assume all the characters constituting
 204      * the key and element appear on a single natural line after
 205      * line continuation characters have been removed.  Note that
 206      * it is <i>not</i> sufficient to only examine the character
 207      * preceding a line terminator sequence to decide if the line
 208      * terminator is escaped; there must be an odd number of
 209      * contiguous backslashes for the line terminator to be escaped.
 210      * Since the input is processed from left to right, a
 211      * non-zero even number of 2<i>n</i> contiguous backslashes
 212      * before a line terminator (or elsewhere) encodes <i>n</i>
 213      * backslashes after escape processing.
 214      *
 215      * <p>
 216      * The key contains all of the characters in the line starting
 217      * with the first non-white space character and up to, but not
 218      * including, the first unescaped <code>'='</code>,
 219      * <code>':'</code>, or white space character other than a line
 220      * terminator. All of these key termination characters may be
 221      * included in the key by escaping them with a preceding backslash
 222      * character; for example,<p>
 223      *
 224      * <code>\:\=</code><p>
 225      *
 226      * would be the two-character key <code>":="</code>.  Line
 227      * terminator characters can be included using <code>\r</code> and
 228      * <code>\n</code> escape sequences.  Any white space after the
 229      * key is skipped; if the first non-white space character after
 230      * the key is <code>'='</code> or <code>':'</code>, then it is
 231      * ignored and any white space characters after it are also
 232      * skipped.  All remaining characters on the line become part of
 233      * the associated element string; if there are no remaining
 234      * characters, the element is the empty string
 235      * <code>&quot;&quot;</code>.  Once the raw character sequences
 236      * constituting the key and element are identified, escape
 237      * processing is performed as described above.
 238      *
 239      * <p>
 240      * As an example, each of the following three lines specifies the key
 241      * <code>"Truth"</code> and the associated element value
 242      * <code>"Beauty"</code>:
 243      * <p>
 244      * <pre>
 245      * Truth = Beauty
 246      *  Truth:Beauty
 247      * Truth                    :Beauty
 248      * </pre>
 249      * As another example, the following three lines specify a single
 250      * property:
 251      * <p>
 252      * <pre>
 253      * fruits                           apple, banana, pear, \
 254      *                                  cantaloupe, watermelon, \
 255      *                                  kiwi, mango
 256      * </pre>
 257      * The key is <code>"fruits"</code> and the associated element is:
 258      * <p>
 259      * <pre>"apple, banana, pear, cantaloupe, watermelon, kiwi, mango"</pre>
 260      * Note that a space appears before each <code>\</code> so that a space
 261      * will appear after each comma in the final result; the <code>\</code>,
 262      * line terminator, and leading white space on the continuation line are
 263      * merely discarded and are <i>not</i> replaced by one or more other
 264      * characters.
 265      * <p>
 266      * As a third example, the line:
 267      * <p>
 268      * <pre>cheeses
 269      * </pre>
 270      * specifies that the key is <code>"cheeses"</code> and the associated
 271      * element is the empty string <code>""</code>.<p>
 272      * <p>
 273      *
 274      * <a name="unicodeescapes"></a>
 275      * Characters in keys and elements can be represented in escape
 276      * sequences similar to those used for character and string literals
 277      * (see sections 3.3 and 3.10.6 of
 278      * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>).
 279      *
 280      * The differences from the character escape sequences and Unicode
 281      * escapes used for characters and strings are:
 282      *
 283      * <ul>
 284      * <li> Octal escapes are not recognized.
 285      *
 286      * <li> The character sequence <code>\b</code> does <i>not</i>
 287      * represent a backspace character.
 288      *
 289      * <li> The method does not treat a backslash character,
 290      * <code>\</code>, before a non-valid escape character as an
 291      * error; the backslash is silently dropped.  For example, in a
 292      * Java string the sequence <code>"\z"</code> would cause a
 293      * compile time error.  In contrast, this method silently drops
 294      * the backslash.  Therefore, this method treats the two character
 295      * sequence <code>"\b"</code> as equivalent to the single
 296      * character <code>'b'</code>.
 297      *
 298      * <li> Escapes are not necessary for single and double quotes;
 299      * however, by the rule above, single and double quote characters
 300      * preceded by a backslash still yield single and double quote
 301      * characters, respectively.
 302      *
 303      * <li> Only a single 'u' character is allowed in a Uniocde escape
 304      * sequence.
 305      *
 306      * </ul>
 307      * <p>
 308      * The specified stream remains open after this method returns.
 309      *
 310      * @param   reader   the input character stream.
 311      * @throws  IOException  if an error occurred when reading from the
 312      *          input stream.
 313      * @throws  IllegalArgumentException if a malformed Unicode escape
 314      *          appears in the input.
 315      * @since   1.6
 316      */


 672                     if (c == '\r' &&
 673                         current != len - 1 &&
 674                         comments.charAt(current + 1) == '\n') {
 675                         current++;
 676                     }
 677                     if (current == len - 1 ||
 678                         (comments.charAt(current + 1) != '#' &&
 679                         comments.charAt(current + 1) != '!'))
 680                         bw.write("#");
 681                 }
 682                 last = current + 1;
 683             }
 684             current++;
 685         }
 686         if (last != current)
 687             bw.write(comments.substring(last, current));
 688         bw.newLine();
 689     }
 690 
 691     /**
 692      * Calls the <code>store(OutputStream out, String comments)</code> method
 693      * and suppresses IOExceptions that were thrown.
 694      *
 695      * @deprecated This method does not throw an IOException if an I/O error
 696      * occurs while saving the property list.  The preferred way to save a
 697      * properties list is via the <code>store(OutputStream out,
 698      * String comments)</code> method or the
 699      * <code>storeToXML(OutputStream os, String comment)</code> method.
 700      *
 701      * @param   out      an output stream.
 702      * @param   comments   a description of the property list.
 703      * @exception  ClassCastException  if this <code>Properties</code> object
 704      *             contains any keys or values that are not
 705      *             <code>Strings</code>.
 706      */
 707     @Deprecated
 708     public void save(OutputStream out, String comments)  {
 709         try {
 710             store(out, comments);
 711         } catch (IOException e) {
 712         }
 713     }
 714 
 715     /**
 716      * Writes this property list (key and element pairs) in this
 717      * <code>Properties</code> table to the output character stream in a
 718      * format suitable for using the {@link #load(java.io.Reader) load(Reader)}
 719      * method.
 720      * <p>
 721      * Properties from the defaults table of this <code>Properties</code>
 722      * table (if any) are <i>not</i> written out by this method.
 723      * <p>
 724      * If the comments argument is not null, then an ASCII <code>#</code>
 725      * character, the comments string, and a line separator are first written
 726      * to the output stream. Thus, the <code>comments</code> can serve as an
 727      * identifying comment. Any one of a line feed ('\n'), a carriage
 728      * return ('\r'), or a carriage return followed immediately by a line feed
 729      * in comments is replaced by a line separator generated by the <code>Writer</code>
 730      * and if the next character in comments is not character <code>#</code> or
 731      * character <code>!</code> then an ASCII <code>#</code> is written out
 732      * after that line separator.
 733      * <p>
 734      * Next, a comment line is always written, consisting of an ASCII
 735      * <code>#</code> character, the current date and time (as if produced
 736      * by the <code>toString</code> method of <code>Date</code> for the
 737      * current time), and a line separator as generated by the <code>Writer</code>.
 738      * <p>
 739      * Then every entry in this <code>Properties</code> table is
 740      * written out, one per line. For each entry the key string is
 741      * written, then an ASCII <code>=</code>, then the associated
 742      * element string. For the key, all space characters are
 743      * written with a preceding <code>\</code> character.  For the
 744      * element, leading space characters, but not embedded or trailing
 745      * space characters, are written with a preceding <code>\</code>
 746      * character. The key and element characters <code>#</code>,
 747      * <code>!</code>, <code>=</code>, and <code>:</code> are written
 748      * with a preceding backslash to ensure that they are properly loaded.
 749      * <p>
 750      * After the entries have been written, the output stream is flushed.
 751      * The output stream remains open after this method returns.
 752      * <p>
 753      *
 754      * @param   writer      an output character stream writer.
 755      * @param   comments   a description of the property list.
 756      * @exception  IOException if writing this property list to the specified
 757      *             output stream throws an <tt>IOException</tt>.
 758      * @exception  ClassCastException  if this <code>Properties</code> object
 759      *             contains any keys or values that are not <code>Strings</code>.
 760      * @exception  NullPointerException  if <code>writer</code> is null.
 761      * @since 1.6
 762      */
 763     public void store(Writer writer, String comments)
 764         throws IOException
 765     {
 766         store0((writer instanceof BufferedWriter)?(BufferedWriter)writer
 767                                                  : new BufferedWriter(writer),
 768                comments,
 769                false);
 770     }
 771 
 772     /**
 773      * Writes this property list (key and element pairs) in this
 774      * <code>Properties</code> table to the output stream in a format suitable
 775      * for loading into a <code>Properties</code> table using the
 776      * {@link #load(InputStream) load(InputStream)} method.
 777      * <p>
 778      * Properties from the defaults table of this <code>Properties</code>
 779      * table (if any) are <i>not</i> written out by this method.
 780      * <p>
 781      * This method outputs the comments, properties keys and values in
 782      * the same format as specified in
 783      * {@link #store(java.io.Writer, java.lang.String) store(Writer)},
 784      * with the following differences:
 785      * <ul>
 786      * <li>The stream is written using the ISO 8859-1 character encoding.
 787      *
 788      * <li>Characters not in Latin-1 in the comments are written as
 789      * <code>&#92;u</code><i>xxxx</i> for their appropriate unicode
 790      * hexadecimal value <i>xxxx</i>.
 791      *
 792      * <li>Characters less than <code>&#92;u0020</code> and characters greater
 793      * than <code>&#92;u007E</code> in property keys or values are written
 794      * as <code>&#92;u</code><i>xxxx</i> for the appropriate hexadecimal
 795      * value <i>xxxx</i>.
 796      * </ul>
 797      * <p>
 798      * After the entries have been written, the output stream is flushed.
 799      * The output stream remains open after this method returns.
 800      * <p>
 801      * @param   out      an output stream.
 802      * @param   comments   a description of the property list.
 803      * @exception  IOException if writing this property list to the specified
 804      *             output stream throws an <tt>IOException</tt>.
 805      * @exception  ClassCastException  if this <code>Properties</code> object
 806      *             contains any keys or values that are not <code>Strings</code>.
 807      * @exception  NullPointerException  if <code>out</code> is null.
 808      * @since 1.2
 809      */
 810     public void store(OutputStream out, String comments)
 811         throws IOException
 812     {
 813         store0(new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(out, "8859_1")),
 814                comments,
 815                true);
 816     }
 817 
 818     private void store0(BufferedWriter bw, String comments, boolean escUnicode)
 819         throws IOException
 820     {
 821         if (comments != null) {
 822             writeComments(bw, comments);
 823         }
 824         bw.write("#" + new Date().toString());
 825         bw.newLine();
 826         synchronized (this) {
 827             for (Enumeration e = keys(); e.hasMoreElements();) {


 840     }
 841 
 842     /**
 843      * Loads all of the properties represented by the XML document on the
 844      * specified input stream into this properties table.
 845      *
 846      * <p>The XML document must have the following DOCTYPE declaration:
 847      * <pre>
 848      * &lt;!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd"&gt;
 849      * </pre>
 850      * Furthermore, the document must satisfy the properties DTD described
 851      * above.
 852      *
 853      * <p>The specified stream is closed after this method returns.
 854      *
 855      * @param in the input stream from which to read the XML document.
 856      * @throws IOException if reading from the specified input stream
 857      *         results in an <tt>IOException</tt>.
 858      * @throws InvalidPropertiesFormatException Data on input stream does not
 859      *         constitute a valid XML document with the mandated document type.
 860      * @throws NullPointerException if <code>in</code> is null.
 861      * @see    #storeToXML(OutputStream, String, String)
 862      * @since 1.5
 863      */
 864     public synchronized void loadFromXML(InputStream in)
 865         throws IOException, InvalidPropertiesFormatException
 866     {
 867         if (in == null)
 868             throw new NullPointerException();
 869         XMLUtils.load(this, in);
 870         in.close();
 871     }
 872 
 873     /**
 874      * Emits an XML document representing all of the properties contained
 875      * in this table.
 876      *
 877      * <p> An invocation of this method of the form <tt>props.storeToXML(os,
 878      * comment)</tt> behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation
 879      * <tt>props.storeToXML(os, comment, "UTF-8");</tt>.
 880      *
 881      * @param os the output stream on which to emit the XML document.
 882      * @param comment a description of the property list, or <code>null</code>
 883      *        if no comment is desired.
 884      * @throws IOException if writing to the specified output stream
 885      *         results in an <tt>IOException</tt>.
 886      * @throws NullPointerException if <code>os</code> is null.
 887      * @throws ClassCastException  if this <code>Properties</code> object
 888      *         contains any keys or values that are not
 889      *         <code>Strings</code>.
 890      * @see    #loadFromXML(InputStream)
 891      * @since 1.5
 892      */
 893     public void storeToXML(OutputStream os, String comment)
 894         throws IOException
 895     {
 896         if (os == null)
 897             throw new NullPointerException();
 898         storeToXML(os, comment, "UTF-8");
 899     }
 900 
 901     /**
 902      * Emits an XML document representing all of the properties contained
 903      * in this table, using the specified encoding.
 904      *
 905      * <p>The XML document will have the following DOCTYPE declaration:
 906      * <pre>
 907      * &lt;!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd"&gt;
 908      * </pre>
 909      *
 910      *<p>If the specified comment is <code>null</code> then no comment
 911      * will be stored in the document.
 912      *
 913      * <p>The specified stream remains open after this method returns.
 914      *
 915      * @param os        the output stream on which to emit the XML document.
 916      * @param comment   a description of the property list, or <code>null</code>
 917      *                  if no comment is desired.
 918      * @param  encoding the name of a supported
 919      *                  <a href="../lang/package-summary.html#charenc">
 920      *                  character encoding</a>
 921      *
 922      * @throws IOException if writing to the specified output stream
 923      *         results in an <tt>IOException</tt>.
 924      * @throws NullPointerException if <code>os</code> is <code>null</code>,
 925      *         or if <code>encoding</code> is <code>null</code>.
 926      * @throws ClassCastException  if this <code>Properties</code> object
 927      *         contains any keys or values that are not
 928      *         <code>Strings</code>.
 929      * @see    #loadFromXML(InputStream)
 930      * @since 1.5
 931      */
 932     public void storeToXML(OutputStream os, String comment, String encoding)
 933         throws IOException
 934     {
 935         if (os == null)
 936             throw new NullPointerException();
 937         XMLUtils.save(this, os, comment, encoding);
 938     }
 939 
 940     /**
 941      * Searches for the property with the specified key in this property list.
 942      * If the key is not found in this property list, the default property list,
 943      * and its defaults, recursively, are then checked. The method returns
 944      * <code>null</code> if the property is not found.
 945      *
 946      * @param   key   the property key.
 947      * @return  the value in this property list with the specified key value.
 948      * @see     #setProperty
 949      * @see     #defaults
 950      */
 951     public String getProperty(String key) {
 952         Object oval = super.get(key);
 953         String sval = (oval instanceof String) ? (String)oval : null;
 954         return ((sval == null) && (defaults != null)) ? defaults.getProperty(key) : sval;
 955     }
 956 
 957     /**
 958      * Searches for the property with the specified key in this property list.
 959      * If the key is not found in this property list, the default property list,
 960      * and its defaults, recursively, are then checked. The method returns the
 961      * default value argument if the property is not found.
 962      *
 963      * @param   key            the hashtable key.
 964      * @param   defaultValue   a default value.


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  25 
  26 package java.util;
  27 
  28 import java.io.IOException;
  29 import java.io.PrintStream;
  30 import java.io.PrintWriter;
  31 import java.io.InputStream;
  32 import java.io.OutputStream;
  33 import java.io.Reader;
  34 import java.io.Writer;
  35 import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
  36 import java.io.BufferedWriter;
  37 import java.lang.reflect.*;
  38 
  39 /**
  40  * The {@code Properties} class represents a persistent set of
  41  * properties. The {@code Properties} can be saved to a stream
  42  * or loaded from a stream. Each key and its corresponding value in
  43  * the property list is a string.
  44  * <p>
  45  * A property list can contain another property list as its
  46  * "defaults"; this second property list is searched if
  47  * the property key is not found in the original property list.
  48  * <p>
  49  * Because {@code Properties} inherits from {@code Hashtable}, the
  50  * {@code put} and {@code putAll} methods can be applied to a
  51  * {@code Properties} object.  Their use is strongly discouraged as they
  52  * allow the caller to insert entries whose keys or values are not
  53  * {@code Strings}.  The {@code setProperty} method should be used
  54  * instead.  If the {@code store} or {@code save} method is called
  55  * on a "compromised" {@code Properties} object that contains a
  56  * non-{@code String} key or value, the call will fail. Similarly,
  57  * the call to the {@code propertyNames} or {@code list} method
  58  * will fail if it is called on a "compromised" {@code Properties}
  59  * object that contains a non-{@code String} key.
  60  *
  61  * <p>
  62  * The {@link #load(java.io.Reader) load(Reader)} <tt>/</tt>
  63  * {@link #store(java.io.Writer, java.lang.String) store(Writer, String)}
  64  * methods load and store properties from and to a character based stream
  65  * in a simple line-oriented format specified below.
  66  *
  67  * The {@link #load(java.io.InputStream) load(InputStream)} <tt>/</tt>
  68  * {@link #store(java.io.OutputStream, java.lang.String) store(OutputStream, String)}
  69  * methods work the same way as the load(Reader)/store(Writer, String) pair, except
  70  * the input/output stream is encoded in ISO 8859-1 character encoding.
  71  * Characters that cannot be directly represented in this encoding can be written using
  72  * Unicode escapes as defined in section 3.3 of
  73  * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>;
  74  * only a single 'u' character is allowed in an escape
  75  * sequence. The native2ascii tool can be used to convert property files to and
  76  * from other character encodings.
  77  *
  78  * <p> The {@link #loadFromXML(InputStream)} and {@link
  79  * #storeToXML(OutputStream, String, String)} methods load and store properties


 129      */
 130     protected Properties defaults;
 131 
 132     /**
 133      * Creates an empty property list with no default values.
 134      */
 135     public Properties() {
 136         this(null);
 137     }
 138 
 139     /**
 140      * Creates an empty property list with the specified defaults.
 141      *
 142      * @param   defaults   the defaults.
 143      */
 144     public Properties(Properties defaults) {
 145         this.defaults = defaults;
 146     }
 147 
 148     /**
 149      * Calls the <tt>Hashtable</tt> method {@code put}. Provided for
 150      * parallelism with the <tt>getProperty</tt> method. Enforces use of
 151      * strings for property keys and values. The value returned is the
 152      * result of the <tt>Hashtable</tt> call to {@code put}.
 153      *
 154      * @param key the key to be placed into this property list.
 155      * @param value the value corresponding to <tt>key</tt>.
 156      * @return     the previous value of the specified key in this property
 157      *             list, or {@code null} if it did not have one.
 158      * @see #getProperty
 159      * @since    1.2
 160      */
 161     public synchronized Object setProperty(String key, String value) {
 162         return put(key, value);
 163     }
 164 
 165 
 166     /**
 167      * Reads a property list (key and element pairs) from the input
 168      * character stream in a simple line-oriented format.
 169      * <p>
 170      * Properties are processed in terms of lines. There are two
 171      * kinds of line, <i>natural lines</i> and <i>logical lines</i>.
 172      * A natural line is defined as a line of
 173      * characters that is terminated either by a set of line terminator
 174      * characters ({@code \n} or {@code \r} or {@code \r\n})
 175      * or by the end of the stream. A natural line may be either a blank line,
 176      * a comment line, or hold all or some of a key-element pair. A logical
 177      * line holds all the data of a key-element pair, which may be spread
 178      * out across several adjacent natural lines by escaping
 179      * the line terminator sequence with a backslash character
 180      * {@code \}.  Note that a comment line cannot be extended
 181      * in this manner; every natural line that is a comment must have
 182      * its own comment indicator, as described below. Lines are read from
 183      * input until the end of the stream is reached.
 184      *
 185      * <p>
 186      * A natural line that contains only white space characters is
 187      * considered blank and is ignored.  A comment line has an ASCII
 188      * {@code '#'} or {@code '!'} as its first non-white
 189      * space character; comment lines are also ignored and do not
 190      * encode key-element information.  In addition to line
 191      * terminators, this format considers the characters space
 192      * ({@code ' '}, {@code '\u005Cu0020'}), tab
 193      * ({@code '\t'}, {@code '\u005Cu0009'}), and form feed
 194      * ({@code '\f'}, {@code '\u005Cu000C'}) to be white
 195      * space.
 196      *
 197      * <p>
 198      * If a logical line is spread across several natural lines, the
 199      * backslash escaping the line terminator sequence, the line
 200      * terminator sequence, and any white space at the start of the
 201      * following line have no affect on the key or element values.
 202      * The remainder of the discussion of key and element parsing
 203      * (when loading) will assume all the characters constituting
 204      * the key and element appear on a single natural line after
 205      * line continuation characters have been removed.  Note that
 206      * it is <i>not</i> sufficient to only examine the character
 207      * preceding a line terminator sequence to decide if the line
 208      * terminator is escaped; there must be an odd number of
 209      * contiguous backslashes for the line terminator to be escaped.
 210      * Since the input is processed from left to right, a
 211      * non-zero even number of 2<i>n</i> contiguous backslashes
 212      * before a line terminator (or elsewhere) encodes <i>n</i>
 213      * backslashes after escape processing.
 214      *
 215      * <p>
 216      * The key contains all of the characters in the line starting
 217      * with the first non-white space character and up to, but not
 218      * including, the first unescaped {@code '='},
 219      * {@code ':'}, or white space character other than a line
 220      * terminator. All of these key termination characters may be
 221      * included in the key by escaping them with a preceding backslash
 222      * character; for example,<p>
 223      *
 224      * {@code \:\=}<p>
 225      *
 226      * would be the two-character key {@code ":="}.  Line
 227      * terminator characters can be included using {@code \r} and
 228      * {@code \n} escape sequences.  Any white space after the
 229      * key is skipped; if the first non-white space character after
 230      * the key is {@code '='} or {@code ':'}, then it is
 231      * ignored and any white space characters after it are also
 232      * skipped.  All remaining characters on the line become part of
 233      * the associated element string; if there are no remaining
 234      * characters, the element is the empty string
 235      * {@code ""}.  Once the raw character sequences
 236      * constituting the key and element are identified, escape
 237      * processing is performed as described above.
 238      *
 239      * <p>
 240      * As an example, each of the following three lines specifies the key
 241      * {@code "Truth"} and the associated element value
 242      * {@code "Beauty"}:
 243      * <p>
 244      * <pre>
 245      * Truth = Beauty
 246      *  Truth:Beauty
 247      * Truth                    :Beauty
 248      * </pre>
 249      * As another example, the following three lines specify a single
 250      * property:
 251      * <p>
 252      * <pre>
 253      * fruits                           apple, banana, pear, \
 254      *                                  cantaloupe, watermelon, \
 255      *                                  kiwi, mango
 256      * </pre>
 257      * The key is {@code "fruits"} and the associated element is:
 258      * <p>
 259      * <pre>"apple, banana, pear, cantaloupe, watermelon, kiwi, mango"</pre>
 260      * Note that a space appears before each {@code \} so that a space
 261      * will appear after each comma in the final result; the {@code \},
 262      * line terminator, and leading white space on the continuation line are
 263      * merely discarded and are <i>not</i> replaced by one or more other
 264      * characters.
 265      * <p>
 266      * As a third example, the line:
 267      * <p>
 268      * <pre>cheeses
 269      * </pre>
 270      * specifies that the key is {@code "cheeses"} and the associated
 271      * element is the empty string {@code ""}.<p>
 272      * <p>
 273      *
 274      * <a name="unicodeescapes"></a>
 275      * Characters in keys and elements can be represented in escape
 276      * sequences similar to those used for character and string literals
 277      * (see sections 3.3 and 3.10.6 of
 278      * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>).
 279      *
 280      * The differences from the character escape sequences and Unicode
 281      * escapes used for characters and strings are:
 282      *
 283      * <ul>
 284      * <li> Octal escapes are not recognized.
 285      *
 286      * <li> The character sequence {@code \b} does <i>not</i>
 287      * represent a backspace character.
 288      *
 289      * <li> The method does not treat a backslash character,
 290      * {@code \}, before a non-valid escape character as an
 291      * error; the backslash is silently dropped.  For example, in a
 292      * Java string the sequence {@code "\z"} would cause a
 293      * compile time error.  In contrast, this method silently drops
 294      * the backslash.  Therefore, this method treats the two character
 295      * sequence {@code "\b"} as equivalent to the single
 296      * character {@code 'b'}.
 297      *
 298      * <li> Escapes are not necessary for single and double quotes;
 299      * however, by the rule above, single and double quote characters
 300      * preceded by a backslash still yield single and double quote
 301      * characters, respectively.
 302      *
 303      * <li> Only a single 'u' character is allowed in a Uniocde escape
 304      * sequence.
 305      *
 306      * </ul>
 307      * <p>
 308      * The specified stream remains open after this method returns.
 309      *
 310      * @param   reader   the input character stream.
 311      * @throws  IOException  if an error occurred when reading from the
 312      *          input stream.
 313      * @throws  IllegalArgumentException if a malformed Unicode escape
 314      *          appears in the input.
 315      * @since   1.6
 316      */


 672                     if (c == '\r' &&
 673                         current != len - 1 &&
 674                         comments.charAt(current + 1) == '\n') {
 675                         current++;
 676                     }
 677                     if (current == len - 1 ||
 678                         (comments.charAt(current + 1) != '#' &&
 679                         comments.charAt(current + 1) != '!'))
 680                         bw.write("#");
 681                 }
 682                 last = current + 1;
 683             }
 684             current++;
 685         }
 686         if (last != current)
 687             bw.write(comments.substring(last, current));
 688         bw.newLine();
 689     }
 690 
 691     /**
 692      * Calls the {@code store(OutputStream out, String comments)} method
 693      * and suppresses IOExceptions that were thrown.
 694      *
 695      * @deprecated This method does not throw an IOException if an I/O error
 696      * occurs while saving the property list.  The preferred way to save a
 697      * properties list is via the {@code store(OutputStream out,
 698      * String comments)} method or the
 699      * {@code storeToXML(OutputStream os, String comment)} method.
 700      *
 701      * @param   out      an output stream.
 702      * @param   comments   a description of the property list.
 703      * @exception  ClassCastException  if this {@code Properties} object
 704      *             contains any keys or values that are not
 705      *             {@code Strings}.
 706      */
 707     @Deprecated
 708     public void save(OutputStream out, String comments)  {
 709         try {
 710             store(out, comments);
 711         } catch (IOException e) {
 712         }
 713     }
 714 
 715     /**
 716      * Writes this property list (key and element pairs) in this
 717      * {@code Properties} table to the output character stream in a
 718      * format suitable for using the {@link #load(java.io.Reader) load(Reader)}
 719      * method.
 720      * <p>
 721      * Properties from the defaults table of this {@code Properties}
 722      * table (if any) are <i>not</i> written out by this method.
 723      * <p>
 724      * If the comments argument is not null, then an ASCII {@code #}
 725      * character, the comments string, and a line separator are first written
 726      * to the output stream. Thus, the {@code comments} can serve as an
 727      * identifying comment. Any one of a line feed ('\n'), a carriage
 728      * return ('\r'), or a carriage return followed immediately by a line feed
 729      * in comments is replaced by a line separator generated by the {@code Writer}
 730      * and if the next character in comments is not character {@code #} or
 731      * character {@code !} then an ASCII {@code #} is written out
 732      * after that line separator.
 733      * <p>
 734      * Next, a comment line is always written, consisting of an ASCII
 735      * {@code #} character, the current date and time (as if produced
 736      * by the {@code toString} method of {@code Date} for the
 737      * current time), and a line separator as generated by the {@code Writer}.
 738      * <p>
 739      * Then every entry in this {@code Properties} table is
 740      * written out, one per line. For each entry the key string is
 741      * written, then an ASCII {@code =}, then the associated
 742      * element string. For the key, all space characters are
 743      * written with a preceding {@code \} character.  For the
 744      * element, leading space characters, but not embedded or trailing
 745      * space characters, are written with a preceding {@code \}
 746      * character. The key and element characters {@code #},
 747      * {@code !}, {@code =}, and {@code :} are written
 748      * with a preceding backslash to ensure that they are properly loaded.
 749      * <p>
 750      * After the entries have been written, the output stream is flushed.
 751      * The output stream remains open after this method returns.
 752      * <p>
 753      *
 754      * @param   writer      an output character stream writer.
 755      * @param   comments   a description of the property list.
 756      * @exception  IOException if writing this property list to the specified
 757      *             output stream throws an <tt>IOException</tt>.
 758      * @exception  ClassCastException  if this {@code Properties} object
 759      *             contains any keys or values that are not {@code Strings}.
 760      * @exception  NullPointerException  if {@code writer} is null.
 761      * @since 1.6
 762      */
 763     public void store(Writer writer, String comments)
 764         throws IOException
 765     {
 766         store0((writer instanceof BufferedWriter)?(BufferedWriter)writer
 767                                                  : new BufferedWriter(writer),
 768                comments,
 769                false);
 770     }
 771 
 772     /**
 773      * Writes this property list (key and element pairs) in this
 774      * {@code Properties} table to the output stream in a format suitable
 775      * for loading into a {@code Properties} table using the
 776      * {@link #load(InputStream) load(InputStream)} method.
 777      * <p>
 778      * Properties from the defaults table of this {@code Properties}
 779      * table (if any) are <i>not</i> written out by this method.
 780      * <p>
 781      * This method outputs the comments, properties keys and values in
 782      * the same format as specified in
 783      * {@link #store(java.io.Writer, java.lang.String) store(Writer)},
 784      * with the following differences:
 785      * <ul>
 786      * <li>The stream is written using the ISO 8859-1 character encoding.
 787      *
 788      * <li>Characters not in Latin-1 in the comments are written as
 789      * {@code \u005Cu}<i>xxxx</i> for their appropriate unicode
 790      * hexadecimal value <i>xxxx</i>.
 791      *
 792      * <li>Characters less than {@code \u005Cu0020} and characters greater
 793      * than {@code \u005Cu007E} in property keys or values are written
 794      * as {@code \u005Cu}<i>xxxx</i> for the appropriate hexadecimal
 795      * value <i>xxxx</i>.
 796      * </ul>
 797      * <p>
 798      * After the entries have been written, the output stream is flushed.
 799      * The output stream remains open after this method returns.
 800      * <p>
 801      * @param   out      an output stream.
 802      * @param   comments   a description of the property list.
 803      * @exception  IOException if writing this property list to the specified
 804      *             output stream throws an <tt>IOException</tt>.
 805      * @exception  ClassCastException  if this {@code Properties} object
 806      *             contains any keys or values that are not {@code Strings}.
 807      * @exception  NullPointerException  if {@code out} is null.
 808      * @since 1.2
 809      */
 810     public void store(OutputStream out, String comments)
 811         throws IOException
 812     {
 813         store0(new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(out, "8859_1")),
 814                comments,
 815                true);
 816     }
 817 
 818     private void store0(BufferedWriter bw, String comments, boolean escUnicode)
 819         throws IOException
 820     {
 821         if (comments != null) {
 822             writeComments(bw, comments);
 823         }
 824         bw.write("#" + new Date().toString());
 825         bw.newLine();
 826         synchronized (this) {
 827             for (Enumeration e = keys(); e.hasMoreElements();) {


 840     }
 841 
 842     /**
 843      * Loads all of the properties represented by the XML document on the
 844      * specified input stream into this properties table.
 845      *
 846      * <p>The XML document must have the following DOCTYPE declaration:
 847      * <pre>
 848      * &lt;!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd"&gt;
 849      * </pre>
 850      * Furthermore, the document must satisfy the properties DTD described
 851      * above.
 852      *
 853      * <p>The specified stream is closed after this method returns.
 854      *
 855      * @param in the input stream from which to read the XML document.
 856      * @throws IOException if reading from the specified input stream
 857      *         results in an <tt>IOException</tt>.
 858      * @throws InvalidPropertiesFormatException Data on input stream does not
 859      *         constitute a valid XML document with the mandated document type.
 860      * @throws NullPointerException if {@code in} is null.
 861      * @see    #storeToXML(OutputStream, String, String)
 862      * @since 1.5
 863      */
 864     public synchronized void loadFromXML(InputStream in)
 865         throws IOException, InvalidPropertiesFormatException
 866     {
 867         if (in == null)
 868             throw new NullPointerException();
 869         XMLUtils.load(this, in);
 870         in.close();
 871     }
 872 
 873     /**
 874      * Emits an XML document representing all of the properties contained
 875      * in this table.
 876      *
 877      * <p> An invocation of this method of the form <tt>props.storeToXML(os,
 878      * comment)</tt> behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation
 879      * <tt>props.storeToXML(os, comment, "UTF-8");</tt>.
 880      *
 881      * @param os the output stream on which to emit the XML document.
 882      * @param comment a description of the property list, or {@code null}
 883      *        if no comment is desired.
 884      * @throws IOException if writing to the specified output stream
 885      *         results in an <tt>IOException</tt>.
 886      * @throws NullPointerException if {@code os} is null.
 887      * @throws ClassCastException  if this {@code Properties} object
 888      *         contains any keys or values that are not
 889      *         {@code Strings}.
 890      * @see    #loadFromXML(InputStream)
 891      * @since 1.5
 892      */
 893     public void storeToXML(OutputStream os, String comment)
 894         throws IOException
 895     {
 896         if (os == null)
 897             throw new NullPointerException();
 898         storeToXML(os, comment, "UTF-8");
 899     }
 900 
 901     /**
 902      * Emits an XML document representing all of the properties contained
 903      * in this table, using the specified encoding.
 904      *
 905      * <p>The XML document will have the following DOCTYPE declaration:
 906      * <pre>
 907      * &lt;!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd"&gt;
 908      * </pre>
 909      *
 910      *<p>If the specified comment is {@code null} then no comment
 911      * will be stored in the document.
 912      *
 913      * <p>The specified stream remains open after this method returns.
 914      *
 915      * @param os        the output stream on which to emit the XML document.
 916      * @param comment   a description of the property list, or {@code null}
 917      *                  if no comment is desired.
 918      * @param  encoding the name of a supported
 919      *                  <a href="../lang/package-summary.html#charenc">
 920      *                  character encoding</a>
 921      *
 922      * @throws IOException if writing to the specified output stream
 923      *         results in an <tt>IOException</tt>.
 924      * @throws NullPointerException if {@code os} is {@code null},
 925      *         or if {@code encoding} is {@code null}.
 926      * @throws ClassCastException  if this {@code Properties} object
 927      *         contains any keys or values that are not
 928      *         {@code Strings}.
 929      * @see    #loadFromXML(InputStream)
 930      * @since 1.5
 931      */
 932     public void storeToXML(OutputStream os, String comment, String encoding)
 933         throws IOException
 934     {
 935         if (os == null)
 936             throw new NullPointerException();
 937         XMLUtils.save(this, os, comment, encoding);
 938     }
 939 
 940     /**
 941      * Searches for the property with the specified key in this property list.
 942      * If the key is not found in this property list, the default property list,
 943      * and its defaults, recursively, are then checked. The method returns
 944      * {@code null} if the property is not found.
 945      *
 946      * @param   key   the property key.
 947      * @return  the value in this property list with the specified key value.
 948      * @see     #setProperty
 949      * @see     #defaults
 950      */
 951     public String getProperty(String key) {
 952         Object oval = super.get(key);
 953         String sval = (oval instanceof String) ? (String)oval : null;
 954         return ((sval == null) && (defaults != null)) ? defaults.getProperty(key) : sval;
 955     }
 956 
 957     /**
 958      * Searches for the property with the specified key in this property list.
 959      * If the key is not found in this property list, the default property list,
 960      * and its defaults, recursively, are then checked. The method returns the
 961      * default value argument if the property is not found.
 962      *
 963      * @param   key            the hashtable key.
 964      * @param   defaultValue   a default value.