diff -r 000000000000 -r 15d14b110240 org/sonews/config/FileConfig.java
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+++ b/org/sonews/config/FileConfig.java	Sat May 01 14:27:30 2010 +0200
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+/*
+ *   SONEWS News Server
+ *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors
+ *
+ *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ *   (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *   GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ *   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+package org.sonews.config;
+
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+/**
+ * Manages the bootstrap configuration. It MUST contain all config values
+ * that are needed to establish a database connection.
+ * For further configuration values use the Config class instead as that class
+ * stores its values within the database.
+ * @author Christian Lins
+ * @since sonews/0.5.0
+ */
+class FileConfig extends AbstractConfig
+{
+
+  private static final Properties defaultConfig = new Properties();
+  
+  private static FileConfig instance = null;
+  
+  static
+  {
+    // Set some default values
+    defaultConfig.setProperty(Config.STORAGE_DATABASE, "jdbc:mysql://localhost/sonews");
+    defaultConfig.setProperty(Config.STORAGE_DBMSDRIVER, "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
+    defaultConfig.setProperty(Config.STORAGE_USER, "sonews_user");
+    defaultConfig.setProperty(Config.STORAGE_PASSWORD, "mysecret");
+    defaultConfig.setProperty(Config.DEBUG, "false");
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * Note: this method is not thread-safe
+   * @return A Config instance
+   */
+  public static synchronized FileConfig getInstance()
+  {
+    if(instance == null)
+    {
+      instance = new FileConfig();
+    }
+    return instance;
+  }
+
+  // Every config instance is initialized with the default values.
+  private final Properties settings = (Properties)defaultConfig.clone();
+
+  /**
+   * Config is a singelton class with only one instance at time.
+   * So the constructor is private to prevent the creation of more
+   * then one Config instance.
+   * @see Config.getInstance() to retrieve an instance of Config
+   */
+  private FileConfig()
+  {
+    try
+    {
+      // Load settings from file
+      load();
+    }
+    catch(IOException ex)
+    {
+      ex.printStackTrace();
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Loads the configuration from the config file. By default this is done
+   * by the (private) constructor but it can be useful to reload the config
+   * by invoking this method.
+   * @throws IOException
+   */
+  public void load() 
+    throws IOException
+  {
+    FileInputStream in = null;
+    
+    try
+    {
+      in = new FileInputStream(
+        Config.inst().get(Config.LEVEL_CLI, Config.CONFIGFILE, "sonews.conf"));
+      settings.load(in);
+    }
+    catch (FileNotFoundException e)
+    {
+      // MUST NOT use Log otherwise endless loop
+      System.err.println(e.getMessage());
+      save();
+    }
+    finally
+    {
+      if(in != null)
+        in.close();
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Saves this Config to the config file. By default this is done
+   * at program end.
+   * @throws FileNotFoundException
+   * @throws IOException
+   */
+  public void save() throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
+  {
+    FileOutputStream out = null;
+    try
+    {
+      out = new FileOutputStream(
+        Config.inst().get(Config.LEVEL_CLI, Config.CONFIGFILE, "sonews.conf"));
+      settings.store(out, "SONEWS Config File");
+      out.flush();
+    }
+    catch(IOException ex)
+    {
+      throw ex;
+    }
+    finally
+    {
+      if(out != null)
+        out.close();
+    }
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * Returns the value that is stored within this config
+   * identified by the given key. If the key cannot be found
+   * the default value is returned.
+   * @param key Key to identify the value.
+   * @param def The default value that is returned if the key
+   * is not found in this Config.
+   * @return
+   */
+  @Override
+  public String get(String key, String def)
+  {
+    return settings.getProperty(key, def);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Sets the value for a given key.
+   * @param key
+   * @param value
+   */
+  public void set(final String key, final String value)
+  {
+    settings.setProperty(key, value);
+  }
+
+}