Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.java.programmer > #23963

Re: Setting a property for System.getProperty()

Show all headers | View raw

On 09/05/13 15:53, RVic wrote:
> I inherited someones mountain of code wherein they use different idioms and ways of doing things than I typically do.
>
> In one instance, there is a line of code:
>
> System.getProperty("cn.env");
>
> which, depending on what machine it is run on, has properties like "production" or "mirror"
>
> Yet, I think this call, System.getProperty(), calls properties from the actual system, like (System.getProperty("user.home") or System.getProperty("file.separator").
>
> So how can I set this on a particular machine (Ubuntu 12 in this case) for a value for cn.env?
>
> Thanks in advance, RVic

Well of course you can use System.setProperty("myprop", "myval");

Or ...

You can set properties when you start your application using the -D 
command line switch.

something like

javac Foo.java
java -Dmyprop=myval Foo

in you code you can access these properties like so
System.getProperty("myprop");

This would return the String "myval"

HTH

lipska

-- 
Lipska the Kat©: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer
and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun

Back to comp.lang.java.programmer | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Setting a property for System.getProperty() RVic <rvince99@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-09 07:53 -0700
  Re: Setting a property for System.getProperty() lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-05-09 16:22 +0100
  Re: Setting a property for System.getProperty() Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-05-09 11:33 -0400
  Re: Setting a property for System.getProperty() RVic <rvince99@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-09 09:01 -0700
    Re: Setting a property for System.getProperty() Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-05-09 21:51 -0400
  Re: Setting a property for System.getProperty() RVic <rvince99@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-09 09:14 -0700
    Re: Setting a property for System.getProperty() markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-05-09 09:48 -0700
      Re: Setting a property for System.getProperty() Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-05-09 21:57 -0400

csiph-web