How to read properties file in java

In this post , we will see how to read properties file in java.

Properties files are used in java projects to externalise configuration, for example, database settings.

Java uses Properties class to store the above key-values pair. Properties.load() method is very convenient to load properties file in form of key-values pairs.

Properties file looks something like this.

There are two ways you can do it.

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Read properties file from System
Read properties file from classpath

Read properties file from System

In this, you need to read properties file from system path. Here I am putting properties file in root level of project.

java code:

package org.arpit.java2blog;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;

/*
 * @author Arpit Mandliya
 */
public class ReadPropertiesFileJavaMain {

    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
        System.out.println("Reading from properties file");
        System.out.println("-----------------------------");
        Properties prop = readPropertiesFile("config.properties");

        System.out.println("host : " + prop.getProperty("host"));
        System.out.println("username : " + prop.getProperty("username"));
        System.out.println("password : " + prop.getProperty("password"));
        System.out.println("-----------------------------");
    }

    public static Properties readPropertiesFile(String fileName) throws IOException {
        FileInputStream fis = null;
        Properties prop = null;
        try {
            fis = new FileInputStream(fileName);
            // create Properties class object
            prop = new Properties();
            // load properties file into it
            prop.load(fis);

        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            fis.close();
        }

        return prop;
    }

}

package org.arpit.java2blog;

import java.io.FileInputStream;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.Properties;

* @author Arpit Mandliya

public class ReadPropertiesFileJavaMain {

public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {

System.out.println("Reading from properties file");

System.out.println("-----------------------------");

Properties prop = readPropertiesFile("config.properties");

System.out.println("host : " + prop.getProperty("host"));

System.out.println("username : " + prop.getProperty("username"));

System.out.println("password : " + prop.getProperty("password"));

System.out.println("-----------------------------");

}

public static Properties readPropertiesFile(String fileName) throws IOException {

FileInputStream fis = null;

Properties prop = null;

try {

fis = new FileInputStream(fileName);

// create Properties class object

prop = new Properties();

// load properties file into it

prop.load(fis);

} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

} finally {

fis.close();

}

return prop;

}

When you run above program, you will get following output:

Reading from properties file
—————————–
host : localhost
username : java2blog
password : java123
—————————–

Read properties file from classpath

You can read properties file to classpath too. You have $project/src as default classpath as this src folder will be copied to classes. You can put it in $project/src folder and read it from there.

you need to use this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/config.properties"); to read it from classpath.

package org.arpit.java2blog;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Properties;

/*
 * @author Arpit Mandliya
 */
public class ReadPropertiesFileJavaMain {

    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
        ReadPropertiesFileJavaMain rp = new ReadPropertiesFileJavaMain();
        System.out.println("Reading from properties file");
        System.out.println("-----------------------------");

        Properties prop = rp.readPropertiesFile("/config.properties");

        System.out.println("host : " + prop.getProperty("host"));
        System.out.println("username : " + prop.getProperty("username"));
        System.out.println("password : " + prop.getProperty("password"));
        System.out.println("-----------------------------");
    }

    public Properties readPropertiesFile(String fileName) throws IOException {
        InputStream fis = null;
        Properties prop = null;
        try {
            prop = new Properties();
            fis = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(fileName);

            // create Properties class object
            if (fis != null) {
                // load properties file into it
                prop.load(fis);
            } else {
                throw new FileNotFoundException("property file '" + fileName + "' not found in the classpath");
            }

        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            fis.close();
        }

        return prop;
    }

}

package org.arpit.java2blog;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.InputStream;

import java.util.Properties;

* @author Arpit Mandliya

public class ReadPropertiesFileJavaMain {

public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {

ReadPropertiesFileJavaMain rp = new ReadPropertiesFileJavaMain();

System.out.println("Reading from properties file");

System.out.println("-----------------------------");

Properties prop = rp.readPropertiesFile("/config.properties");

System.out.println("host : " + prop.getProperty("host"));

System.out.println("username : " + prop.getProperty("username"));

System.out.println("password : " + prop.getProperty("password"));

System.out.println("-----------------------------");

}

public Properties readPropertiesFile(String fileName) throws IOException {

InputStream fis = null;

Properties prop = null;

try {

prop = new Properties();

fis = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(fileName);

// create Properties class object

if (fis != null) {

// load properties file into it

prop.load(fis);

} else {

throw new FileNotFoundException("property file '" + fileName + "' not found in the classpath");

}

} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

} finally {

fis.close();

}

return prop;

}

When you run above program, you will get following output:

Reading from properties file
—————————–
host : localhost
username : java2blog
password : java123
—————————–

That’s all about how to read properties file in java

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