org.unitils.io.annotation

Annotation Type FileContent

@Target(value=FIELD)
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
public @interface FileContent

Annotation for loading the contents of a file into a field.

The @FileContent will try to load a file (or other resource depending on the ReadingStrategy), convert it to the type of the annotated field and inject the result into the field.

A file name can be specified as value explicitly. If no file name is specified, a default file name will be used: 'classname'.'extension'. The extension depends on the target type: 'txt' for String and 'properties' for Properties.

By default, the file name is prefixed with the package name (. replaced by /).
E.g. MyFile.xml becomes com/myPackage/MyFile.xml

If a file name starts with a / it will not be prefixed with the package name.
E.g. /MyFile.xml remains /MyFile.xml

Package name prefixing can be disabled using the IOModule.file.prefixWithPackageName property.
IOModule.file.prefixWithPackageName=false => MyFile.xml remains MyFile.xml

If a path prefix is specified using the IOModule.file.pathPrefix property it is added to the file name.
Examples:

IOModule.file.pathPrefix=myPathPrefix: MyFile.xml becomes myPathPrefix/com/myPackage/MyFile.xml
IOModule.file.pathPrefix=myPathPrefix: /MyFile.xml becomes myPathPrefix/MyFile.xml

If the path prefix starts with '/', the file name is treated absolute, else it will be treated relative to the classpath.

Examples:

path prefix /c:/testfiles --> looks for c:/testfiles/MyFile.xml on the file system path prefix testfiles --> looks for testfiles/MyFile.xml on the classpath

Example usage:

 public class MyTestClass extends UnitilsJUnit4 {

 '    @FileContent
      private String field1;
 '    @FileContent("/someFile.properties")
      private Properties field2;
      ...
 }
 

In this example the content of 'org/mypackage/MyTestClass.txt" will be injected into field1 and the properties loaded from 'someFile.properties' will be injected into field2.

The encoding of the file can be passed as an argument. By default ISO-8859-1 is used. The default can be set by overriding the IOModule.encoding.default property.

Since:

3.3

Author:

Jeroen Horemans, Tim Ducheyne, Thomas De Rycke

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element and Description
String	encoding Encoding to be used when reading the file.
String	value

Element Detail

value

public abstract String value

Returns:

File location of a file, this can be relative to the workspace, or an absolute path.

Default:

""

encoding

public abstract String encoding

Encoding to be used when reading the file. If no encoding is specified the default JVM encoding will be used

Possible values:

     Charset
      Description
         US-ASCII Seven-bit ASCII, a.k.a. ISO646-US, a.k.a. the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set
         ISO-8859-1   ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1
         UTF-8 Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format
         UTF-16BE Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, big-endian byte order
         UTF-16LE Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, little-endian byte order
         UTF-16 Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an optional byte-order mark
 

Returns:

encoding

Default:

""