ConfigurationUtils (Apache Commons Configuration 2.7 API)

java.lang.Object
- org.apache.commons.configuration2.ConfigurationUtils

```
public final class ConfigurationUtils
extends Object
```
Miscellaneous utility methods for configurations.

See Also:

Utility methods to convert configurations.

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method and Description
`static void`	`append(Configuration source, Configuration target)` Append all properties from the source configuration to the target configuration.
`static void`	`append(ImmutableConfiguration source, Configuration target)` Append all properties from the source configuration to the target configuration.
`static EventSource`	`asEventSource(Object obj, boolean mockIfUnsupported)` Casts the specified object to an `EventSource` if possible.
`static Configuration`	`cloneConfiguration(Configuration config)` Clones the given configuration object if this is possible.
`static Object`	`cloneIfPossible(Object obj)` Returns a clone of the passed in object if cloning is supported or the object itself if not.
`static Synchronizer`	`cloneSynchronizer(Synchronizer sync)` Creates a clone of the specified `Synchronizer`.
`static HierarchicalConfiguration<?>`	`convertToHierarchical(Configuration conf)` Converts the passed in configuration to a hierarchical one.
`static HierarchicalConfiguration<?>`	`convertToHierarchical(Configuration conf, ExpressionEngine engine)` Converts the passed in `Configuration` object to a hierarchical one using the specified `ExpressionEngine`.
`static void`	`copy(Configuration source, Configuration target)` Copy all properties from the source configuration to the target configuration.
`static void`	`copy(ImmutableConfiguration source, Configuration target)` Copy all properties from the source configuration to the target configuration.
`static void`	`dump(Configuration configuration, PrintStream out)` Dump the configuration key/value mappings to some ouput stream.
`static void`	`dump(Configuration configuration, PrintWriter out)` Dump the configuration key/value mappings to some writer.
`static void`	`dump(ImmutableConfiguration configuration, PrintStream out)` Dump the configuration key/value mappings to some ouput stream.
`static void`	`dump(ImmutableConfiguration configuration, PrintWriter out)` Dump the configuration key/value mappings to some writer.
`static void`	`enableRuntimeExceptions(Configuration src)` Enables runtime exceptions for the specified configuration object.
`static Class<?>`	`loadClass(String clsName)` Loads the class with the given name.
`static Class<?>`	`loadClassNoEx(String clsName)` Loads the class with the specified name re-throwing `ClassNotFoundException` exceptions as runtime exceptions.
`static String`	`toString(Configuration configuration)` Get a string representation of the key/value mappings of a configuration.
`static String`	`toString(ImmutableConfiguration configuration)` Get a string representation of the key/value mappings of a configuration.
`static ImmutableConfiguration`	`unmodifiableConfiguration(Configuration c)` Creates an `ImmutableConfiguration` from the given `Configuration` object.
`static ImmutableHierarchicalConfiguration`	`unmodifiableConfiguration(HierarchicalConfiguration<?> c)` Creates an `ImmutableHierarchicalConfiguration` from the given `HierarchicalConfiguration` object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Method Detail
  - dump
```
public static void dump(ImmutableConfiguration configuration,
                        PrintStream out)
```
    Dump the configuration key/value mappings to some ouput stream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    configuration - the configuration
    
    out - the output stream to dump the configuration to
    
    Since:
    
    2.2
  - dump
```
public static void dump(Configuration configuration,
                        PrintStream out)
```
    Dump the configuration key/value mappings to some ouput stream. This version of the method exists only for backwards compatibility reason.
    
    Parameters:
    
    configuration - the configuration
    
    out - the output stream to dump the configuration to
  - dump
```
public static void dump(ImmutableConfiguration configuration,
                        PrintWriter out)
```
    Dump the configuration key/value mappings to some writer.
    
    Parameters:
    
    configuration - the configuration
    
    out - the writer to dump the configuration to
    
    Since:
    
    2.2
  - dump
```
public static void dump(Configuration configuration,
                        PrintWriter out)
```
    Dump the configuration key/value mappings to some writer. This version of the method exists only for backwards compatibility reason.
    
    Parameters:
    
    configuration - the configuration
    
    out - the writer to dump the configuration to
  - toString
```
public static String toString(ImmutableConfiguration configuration)
```
    Get a string representation of the key/value mappings of a configuration.
    
    Parameters:
    
    configuration - the configuration
    
    Returns:
    
    a string representation of the configuration
    
    Since:
    
    2.2
  - toString
```
public static String toString(Configuration configuration)
```
    Get a string representation of the key/value mappings of a configuration. This version of the method exists only for backwards compatibility reason.
    
    Parameters:
    
    configuration - the configuration
    
    Returns:
    
    a string representation of the configuration
  - copy
```
public static void copy(ImmutableConfiguration source,
                        Configuration target)
```
    Copy all properties from the source configuration to the target configuration. Properties in the target configuration are replaced with the properties with the same key in the source configuration.
    
    Note: This method is not able to handle some specifics of configurations derived from AbstractConfiguration (e.g. list delimiters). For a full support of all of these features the copy() method of AbstractConfiguration should be used. In a future release this method might become deprecated.
    
    Parameters:
    
    source - the source configuration
    
    target - the target configuration
    
    Since:
    
    2.2
  - copy
```
public static void copy(Configuration source,
                        Configuration target)
```
    Copy all properties from the source configuration to the target configuration. Properties in the target configuration are replaced with the properties with the same key in the source configuration.
    
    Note: This method is not able to handle some specifics of configurations derived from AbstractConfiguration (e.g. list delimiters). For a full support of all of these features the copy() method of AbstractConfiguration should be used. In a future release this method might become deprecated.
    
    Parameters:
    
    source - the source configuration
    
    target - the target configuration
    
    Since:
    
    1.1
  - append
```
public static void append(ImmutableConfiguration source,
                          Configuration target)
```
    Append all properties from the source configuration to the target configuration. Properties in the source configuration are appended to the properties with the same key in the target configuration.
    
    Note: This method is not able to handle some specifics of configurations derived from AbstractConfiguration (e.g. list delimiters). For a full support of all of these features the copy() method of AbstractConfiguration should be used. In a future release this method might become deprecated.
    
    Parameters:
    
    source - the source configuration
    
    target - the target configuration
    
    Since:
    
    2.2
  - append
```
public static void append(Configuration source,
                          Configuration target)
```
    Append all properties from the source configuration to the target configuration. Properties in the source configuration are appended to the properties with the same key in the target configuration.
    
    Note: This method is not able to handle some specifics of configurations derived from AbstractConfiguration (e.g. list delimiters). For a full support of all of these features the copy() method of AbstractConfiguration should be used. In a future release this method might become deprecated.
    
    Parameters:
    
    source - the source configuration
    
    target - the target configuration
    
    Since:
    
    1.1
  - convertToHierarchical
```
public static HierarchicalConfiguration<?> convertToHierarchical(Configuration conf)
```
    Converts the passed in configuration to a hierarchical one. If the configuration is already hierarchical, it is directly returned. Otherwise all properties are copied into a new hierarchical configuration.
    
    Parameters:
    
    conf - the configuration to convert
    
    Returns:
    
    the new hierarchical configuration (the result is null if and only if the passed in configuration is null)
    
    Since:
    
    1.3
  - convertToHierarchical
```
public static HierarchicalConfiguration<?> convertToHierarchical(Configuration conf,
                                                                 ExpressionEngine engine)
```
    Converts the passed in Configuration object to a hierarchical one using the specified ExpressionEngine. This conversion works by adding the keys found in the configuration to a newly created hierarchical configuration. When adding new keys to a hierarchical configuration the keys are interpreted by its ExpressionEngine. If they contain special characters (e.g. brackets) that are treated in a special way by the default expression engine, it may be necessary using a specific engine that can deal with such characters. Otherwise null can be passed in for the ExpressionEngine; then the default expression engine is used. If the passed in configuration is already hierarchical, it is directly returned. (However, the ExpressionEngine is set if it is not null.) Otherwise all properties are copied into a new hierarchical configuration.
    
    Parameters:
    
    conf - the configuration to convert
    
    engine - the ExpressionEngine for the hierarchical configuration or null for the default
    
    Returns:
    
    the new hierarchical configuration (the result is null if and only if the passed in configuration is null)
    
    Since:
    
    1.6
  - cloneConfiguration
```
public static Configuration cloneConfiguration(Configuration config)
                                        throws ConfigurationRuntimeException
```
    Clones the given configuration object if this is possible. If the passed in configuration object implements the Cloneable interface, its clone() method will be invoked. Otherwise an exception will be thrown.
    
    Parameters:
    
    config - the configuration object to be cloned (can be null)
    
    Returns:
    
    the cloned configuration (null if the argument was null, too)
    
    Throws:
    
    ConfigurationRuntimeException - if cloning is not supported for this object
    
    Since:
    
    1.3
  - cloneIfPossible
```
public static Object cloneIfPossible(Object obj)
```
    Returns a clone of the passed in object if cloning is supported or the object itself if not. This method checks whether the passed in object implements the Cloneable interface. If this is the case, the clone() method is invoked. Otherwise, the object is directly returned. Errors that might occur during reflection calls are caught and also cause this method to return the original object.
    
    Parameters:
    
    obj - the object to be cloned
    
    Returns:
    
    the result of the cloning attempt
    
    Since:
    
    2.0
  - cloneSynchronizer
```
public static Synchronizer cloneSynchronizer(Synchronizer sync)
```
    Creates a clone of the specified Synchronizer. This method can be called by clone() implementations in configuration classes that also need to copy the Synchronizer object. This method can handle some well-known Synchronizer implementations directly. For other classes, it uses the following algorithm:
    - If the class of the Synchronizer has a standard constructor, a new instance is created using reflection.
    - If this is not possible, it is tried whether the object can be cloned.
    If all attempts fail, a ConfigurationRuntimeException is thrown.
    Parameters:
    
    sync - the Synchronizer object to be cloned
    
    Returns:
    
    the clone of this Synchronizer
    
    Throws:
    
    ConfigurationRuntimeException - if no clone can be created
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if null is passed in
  - enableRuntimeExceptions
```
public static void enableRuntimeExceptions(Configuration src)
```
    Enables runtime exceptions for the specified configuration object. This method can be used for configuration implementations that may face errors on normal property access, e.g. DatabaseConfiguration or JNDIConfiguration. Per default such errors are simply logged and then ignored. This implementation will register a special EventListener that throws a runtime exception (namely a ConfigurationRuntimeException) on each received error event.
    
    Parameters:
    
    src - the configuration, for which runtime exceptions are to be enabled; this configuration must implement EventSource
  - loadClass
```
public static Class<?> loadClass(String clsName)
                          throws ClassNotFoundException
```
    Loads the class with the given name. This method is used whenever a class has to be loaded dynamically. It first tries the current thread's context class loader. If this fails, the class loader of this class is tried.
    
    Parameters:
    
    clsName - the name of the class to be loaded
    
    Returns:
    
    the loaded class
    
    Throws:
    
    ClassNotFoundException - if the class cannot be resolved
    
    Since:
    
    2.0
  - loadClassNoEx
```
public static Class<?> loadClassNoEx(String clsName)
```
    Loads the class with the specified name re-throwing ClassNotFoundException exceptions as runtime exceptions. This method works like loadClass(String). However, checked exceptions are caught and re-thrown as ConfigurationRuntimeException.
    
    Parameters:
    
    clsName - the name of the class to be loaded
    
    Returns:
    
    the loaded class
    
    Throws:
    
    ConfigurationRuntimeException - if the class cannot be resolved
    
    Since:
    
    2.0
  - unmodifiableConfiguration
```
public static ImmutableConfiguration unmodifiableConfiguration(Configuration c)
```
    Creates an ImmutableConfiguration from the given Configuration object. This method creates a proxy object wrapping the original configuration and making it available under the ImmutableConfiguration interface. Through this interface the configuration cannot be manipulated. It is also not possible to cast the returned object back to a Configuration instance to circumvent this protection.
    
    Parameters:
    
    c - the Configuration to be wrapped (must not be null)
    
    Returns:
    
    an ImmutableConfiguration view on the specified Configuration object
    
    Throws:
    
    NullPointerException - if the passed in Configuration is null
    
    Since:
    
    2.0
  - unmodifiableConfiguration
```
public static ImmutableHierarchicalConfiguration unmodifiableConfiguration(HierarchicalConfiguration<?> c)
```
    Creates an ImmutableHierarchicalConfiguration from the given HierarchicalConfiguration object. This method works exactly like the method with the same name, but it operates on hierarchical configurations.
    
    Parameters:
    
    c - the HierarchicalConfiguration to be wrapped (must not be null)
    
    Returns:
    
    an ImmutableHierarchicalConfiguration view on the specified HierarchicalConfiguration object
    
    Throws:
    
    NullPointerException - if the passed in HierarchicalConfiguration is null
    
    Since:
    
    2.0
  - asEventSource
```
public static EventSource asEventSource(Object obj,
                                        boolean mockIfUnsupported)
```
    Casts the specified object to an EventSource if possible. The boolean argument determines the method's behavior if the object does not implement the EventSource event: if set to false, a ConfigurationRuntimeException is thrown; if set to true, a dummy EventSource is returned; on this object all methods can be called, but they do not have any effect.
    
    Parameters:
    
    obj - the object to be cast as EventSource
    
    mockIfUnsupported - a flag whether a mock object should be returned if necessary
    
    Returns:
    
    an EventSource
    
    Throws:
    
    ConfigurationRuntimeException - if the object cannot be cast to EventSource and the mock flag is false
    
    Since:
    
    2.0

Class ConfigurationUtils

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

Method Detail

dump

dump

dump

dump

toString

toString

copy

copy

append

append

convertToHierarchical

convertToHierarchical

cloneConfiguration

cloneIfPossible

cloneSynchronizer

enableRuntimeExceptions

loadClass

loadClassNoEx

unmodifiableConfiguration

unmodifiableConfiguration

asEventSource