sortedproperties.java

A static analysis tool to find bugs in Java programs

package edu.umd.cs.findbugs.config;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * @author pugh
 */
public final class SortedProperties extends Properties {
	/**
	 * Overriden to be able to write properties sorted by keys to the disk
	 * @see java.util.Hashtable#keys()
	 */
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	@Override
	public synchronized Enumeration<Object> keys() {
		// sort elements based on detector (prop key) names
		Set set = keySet();
		return sortKeys(set);
	}

	/**
	 * To be compatible with version control systems, we need to sort properties before
	 * storing them to disk. Otherwise each change may lead to problems by diff against
	 * previous version - because Property entries are randomly distributed (it's a map).
	 *
	 * @param keySet non null set instance to sort
	 * @return non null list wich contains all given keys, sorted lexicographically.
	 * The list may be empty if given set was empty
	 */
	static public Enumeration sortKeys(Set<String> keySet) {
		List<String> sortedList = new ArrayList<String>();
		sortedList.addAll(keySet);
		Collections.sort(sortedList);
		return Collections.enumeration(sortedList);
	}
}