Preferences

Read preferences from user space

In this example we shall show you how to read the Preferences from user space. To read the Preferences from user space one should perform the following steps:

  • Get the root preference node for the calling user, using userRoot() API method of Preferences.
  • Get the named preference for a given path name of the preference node, with node(String pathName) API method of Preferences.
  • Get the value associated with the specified key in this preference node, using get(String key, String def) API method of Preferences.
  • Get the boolean value represented by the string associated with the specified key in this preference node, with getBoolean(String key, boolean def) API method,

as described in the code snippet below.

public class UsePreference {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {

  Preferences myfilePrefs = Preferences.userRoot();

  myfilePrefs = myfilePrefs


    .node("com.myapp.preference.staticPreferenceLoader");

  System.out.println("finding fruit:"


    + myfilePrefs.get("fruit", "not found") + " available :"


    + myfilePrefs.getBoolean("available", true));
    }
}

 
This was an example of how to read the Preferences from user space in Java.
 

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Reference: Use java.util.prefs.Preferences instead of java.util.Properties from our JCG partner Rahul Sharma at the “The road so far…” blog

Byron Kiourtzoglou

Byron is a master software engineer working in the IT and Telecom domains. He is an applications developer in a wide variety of applications/services. He is currently acting as the team leader and technical architect for a proprietary service creation and integration platform for both the IT and Telecom industries in addition to a in-house big data real-time analytics solution. He is always fascinated by SOA, middleware services and mobile development. Byron is co-founder and Executive Editor at Java Code Geeks.
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