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Class Preferences

public class Preferences

implements DynamicPropertySet

Specialized implimentation of DynamicPropertySet to store and edit application preferences. Methods get/setValue, getProperty, getType, getPropertyDescriptor uses findProperty method that supports access to internal properties in preferences tree. The property name format is following: [parent/]*child

pending stored property can be only one of the allowed type: String, Boolean, Int, Long, Float, Double, Preferences (this allows to organise preferences in tree structure).

public Preferences()

public void add(DynamicProperty property)

Adds the specified property.

public void addPropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener listener)

public void addPropertyChangeListener(String propertyName, PropertyChangeListener listener)

public Map asMap()

public boolean contains(DynamicProperty property)

Checks if property does exist in this set

public void firePropertyChange(String propertyName, Object oldValue, Object newValue)

public void firePropertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent evt)

public boolean getBooleanValue(String name, boolean defaultValue)

public double getDoubleValue(String name, double defaultValue)

public float getFloatValue(String name, float defaultValue)

public int getIntValue(String name, int defaultValue)

public long getLongValue(String name, long defaultValue)

public DynamicProperty getProperty(String name)

public PropertyDescriptor getPropertyDescriptor(String name)

public String getStringValue(String name, String defaultValue)

public Class getType(String name)

Returns: type for the property with specified name.

public Object getValue(String name)

Returns: value for the property with specified name.

public Object getValue(String name, Object defaultValue)

Returns: value for the property with specified name.

public boolean hasListeners(String propertyName)

Check if there are any listeners for a specific property.

Parameters:

propertyName - the property name.

Returns: true if there are ore or more listeners for the given property

public void load(String fileName)

public Iterator nameIterator()

public Iterator propertyIterator()

public boolean remove(String name)

public void removePropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener listener)

public void removePropertyChangeListener(String propertyName, PropertyChangeListener listener)

public void setValue(String name, Object value)

Set up value for the specified property name.

throw IllegalArgumentException if property with specified name was not found.

pending firePropertyChange

public void setValue(String name, Object value, PropertyDescriptor descriptor)

Association Links

to Class java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport

to Class java.util.Map

to Class java.lang.String

to Class java.lang.String

to Class java.lang.String

to Class java.lang.String

to Class java.lang.String

to Class java.lang.String

to Class java.lang.String

to Class java.lang.String

to Class java.lang.String

to Class java.lang.String

to Class java.lang.String

to Class java.lang.String