Re: Stored Properties file gets emptied
Sabine Dinis Blochberger wrote:
It seems there is a bug with our XMPP client (Java 1.6, smack) - I store
the users settings in a Properties file. My boss tells me on some
customers PCs the settings file sometimes ends up losing the contents.
[...]
The class is instanciated in the application at start up with
private static final String APP_HOME =
System.getProperties().getProperty("appdir");
private static final String USER_HOME =
System.getProperties().getProperty("user.home");
private static final String USER_APP_HOME = USER_HOME + "/op3mi";
if (APP_HOME == null) {
OPTIONS_DIRECTORY = new File(USER_APP_HOME, "/" +
OPTIONS_DIR_NAME).getAbsoluteFile();
} else {
OPTIONS_DIRECTORY = new File(APP_HOME, "/" +
OPTIONS_DIR_NAME).getAbsoluteFile();
}
These seem a little odd. If you're using the two-argument File
constructors, while bother inserting a separator? (Actually, I prefer
to handle paths this way than to access file.separator or similar.)
The docs say that an absolute child argument (the second one) will be
converted in a system-dependent way, so while the leading '/' seems
benign on my system (testing with the program below), it might be
different on yours or your customers'.
import java.io.*;
public class Subfile {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(new File(args[0], args[1]));
}
}
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