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Ice is a comprehensive RPC framework that helps you build distributed applications with minimal effort using familiar object-oriented idioms
// **********************************************************************
//
// Copyright (c) 2003-2018 ZeroC, Inc. All rights reserved.
//
// This copy of Ice is licensed to you under the terms described in the
// ICE_LICENSE file included in this distribution.
//
// **********************************************************************
//
// Ice version 3.6.5
//
//
//
// Generated from file `Properties.ice'
//
// Warning: do not edit this file.
//
//
//
package Ice;
/**
* A property set used to configure Ice and Ice applications.
* Properties are key/value pairs, with both keys and values
* being strings. By convention, property keys should have the form
* application-name\[.category\[.sub-category]].name.
*
**/
public interface Properties
{
/**
* Get a property by key. If the property is not set, an empty
* string is returned.
*
* @param key The property key.
*
* @return The property value.
*
* @see #setProperty
*
**/
String getProperty(String key);
/**
* Get a property by key. If the property is not set, the
* given default value is returned.
*
* @param key The property key.
*
* @param value The default value to use if the property does not
* exist.
*
* @return The property value or the default value.
*
* @see #setProperty
*
**/
String getPropertyWithDefault(String key, String value);
/**
* Get a property as an integer. If the property is not set, 0
* is returned.
*
* @param key The property key.
*
* @return The property value interpreted as an integer.
*
* @see #setProperty
*
**/
int getPropertyAsInt(String key);
/**
* Get a property as an integer. If the property is not set, the
* given default value is returned.
*
* @param key The property key.
*
* @param value The default value to use if the property does not
* exist.
*
* @return The property value interpreted as an integer, or the
* default value.
*
* @see #setProperty
*
**/
int getPropertyAsIntWithDefault(String key, int value);
/**
* Get a property as a list of strings. The strings must be
* separated by whitespace or comma. If the property is not set,
* an empty list is returned. The strings in the list can contain
* whitespace and commas if they are enclosed in single or double
* quotes. If quotes are mismatched, an empty list is returned.
* Within single quotes or double quotes, you can escape the
* quote in question with \, e.g. O'Reilly can be written as
* O'Reilly, "O'Reilly" or 'O\'Reilly'.
*
* @param key The property key.
*
* @return The property value interpreted as a list of strings.
*
* @see #setProperty
*
**/
String[] getPropertyAsList(String key);
/**
* Get a property as a list of strings. The strings must be
* separated by whitespace or comma. If the property is not set,
* the default list is returned. The strings in the list can contain
* whitespace and commas if they are enclosed in single or double
* quotes. If quotes are mismatched, the default list is returned.
* Within single quotes or double quotes, you can escape the
* quote in question with \, e.g. O'Reilly can be written as
* O'Reilly, "O'Reilly" or 'O\'Reilly'.
*
* @param key The property key.
*
* @param value The default value to use if the property is not set.
*
* @return The property value interpreted as list of strings, or the
* default value.
*
* @see #setProperty
*
**/
String[] getPropertyAsListWithDefault(String key, String[] value);
/**
* Get all properties whose keys begins with
* prefix. If
* prefix is an empty string,
* then all properties are returned.
*
* @param prefix The prefix to search for (empty string if none).
* @return The matching property set.
*
**/
java.util.Map getPropertiesForPrefix(String prefix);
/**
* Set a property. To unset a property, set it to
* the empty string.
*
* @param key The property key.
* @param value The property value.
*
* @see #getProperty
*
**/
void setProperty(String key, String value);
/**
* Get a sequence of command-line options that is equivalent to
* this property set. Each element of the returned sequence is
* a command-line option of the form
* --key=value.
*
* @return The command line options for this property set.
*
**/
String[] getCommandLineOptions();
/**
* Convert a sequence of command-line options into properties.
* All options that begin with
* --prefix. are
* converted into properties. If the prefix is empty, all options
* that begin with -- are converted to properties.
*
* @param prefix The property prefix, or an empty string to
* convert all options starting with --.
*
* @param options The command-line options.
*
* @return The command-line options that do not start with the specified
* prefix, in their original order.
*
**/
String[] parseCommandLineOptions(String prefix, String[] options);
/**
* Convert a sequence of command-line options into properties.
* All options that begin with one of the following prefixes
* are converted into properties: --Ice, --IceBox, --IceGrid,
* --IcePatch2, --IceSSL, --IceStorm, --Freeze, and --Glacier2.
*
* @param options The command-line options.
*
* @return The command-line options that do not start with one of
* the listed prefixes, in their original order.
*
**/
String[] parseIceCommandLineOptions(String[] options);
/**
* Load properties from a file.
*
* @param file The property file.
*
**/
void load(String file);
/**
* Create a copy of this property set.
*
* @return A copy of this property set.
*
**/
Properties _clone();
public static final long serialVersionUID = 130286307407139475L;
}