ninja.utils

Class SwissKnife

java.lang.Object

ninja.utils.SwissKnife

public class SwissKnife
extends Object

A helper class that contains a lot of random stuff that helps to get things done.

Author:

ra

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SwissKnife()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static org.apache.commons.configuration.Configuration	loadConfigurationInUtf8(String fileOrUrlOrClasspathUrl) This is important: We load stuff as UTF-8.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SwissKnife

public SwissKnife()

Method Detail

loadConfigurationInUtf8

public static org.apache.commons.configuration.Configuration loadConfigurationInUtf8(String fileOrUrlOrClasspathUrl)

This is important: We load stuff as UTF-8. We are using in the default Apache Commons loading mechanism. With two little tweaks: 1. We don't accept any delimimter by default 2. We are reading in UTF-8 More about that: http://commons.apache.org/configuration/userguide/howto_filebased .html#Loading From the docs: - If the combination from base path and file name is a full URL that points to an existing file, this URL will be used to load the file. - If the combination from base path and file name is an absolute file name and this file exists, it will be loaded. - If the combination from base path and file name is a relative file path that points to an existing file, this file will be loaded. - If a file with the specified name exists in the user's home directory, this file will be loaded. - Otherwise the file name is interpreted as a resource name, and it is checked whether the data file can be loaded from the classpath.

Parameters:

fileOrUrlOrClasspathUrl - Location of the file. Can be on file system, or on the classpath. Will both work.

clazz - We need a classloader and clazz provides the classloader.

Returns:

A configuration or null if there were problems getting it.