The other day Darren asked about how to access a properties file with some settings from within a Livecycle ES resp. ADEP DSC on the livecycle developers mailing list. I responded there, but I thought it’d be useful to post the solution here as well.
Essentially a Livecycle/ADEP DSC is nothing else but a .jar file that’s been crafted in a certain way. Darren wanted to have the .properties file within the DSC and needed to know how to access the file from Java code within the DSC. Here’s a working approach how this can be done:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | InputStream is = this.getClass().getClassLoader(). getResourceAsStream("your_properties_file_here");Properties prop = new Properties();if (is!=null) { try { prop.load(is); return prop.getProperty("someProperty"); } catch ( ...probably IOException of some kind... ) { ... }} |
To refer to the actual file, starting from the jar’s root will work:
1 2 | getResourceAsStream("folder_with_the_propertyfile/ agentk.properties"); |
There you go, have fun writing DSCs with .properties files!
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