Iteration of ant properties in the same natural order

[Raja Nagendra Kumar <Na...@tejasoft.com>]

Hi,

Does ant api has any class, which read ant/java properties files and allows
the iteration in the same order they were present in the original file.

e.g if the properties
a=k
b=c
d=10

etc exists..My iterator for the properties should give me the keys in the
order of a,b,d.. 

I was looking at org.apache.tools.ant.util.LayoutPreservingProperties .. but
does not seem to expose 

Regards,
Nagendra

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Re: Iteration of ant properties in the same natural order

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On 2010-04-18, Raja Nagendra Kumar <Na...@tejasoft.com> wrote:

> Does ant api has any class, which read ant/java properties files and
> allows the iteration in the same order they were present in the
> original file.

None that I was aware of.

> I was looking at org.apache.tools.ant.util.LayoutPreservingProperties
> .. but does not seem to expose

This is true, but is shouldn't be too difficult to expose an iterator
over all Pairs stored in logicalLines (returning Map.Entry instances,
probably) and provide a patch for this.

Stefan

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