Loading config files

Is there a "standard" way to load config files?
I remember reading something about ResourceBundler or something to that effect, but can't find that thread now.
Essentially i don't want to have to put "../../conf/myconf.xml" in my code. I also believe that some folks have suggested to simply throw the path to the conf file in my CLASSPATH and that should do the trick, but i'm not convinced that the CLASSPATH is the right place to put such paths.
Help?
Anybody?
Thanks.

Relative paths are a good solution, especially if you allow for the specification of the "root" or "home" directory of your application via a System property. Then you can look up the System property, and traverse your relative paths based on that.
- Phil

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Hello,
Not sure if this is the correct place...
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I am embarrassed to say that your solution answered my question.
I was about 10 min away from rewriting my Ant script to just use the mxmlc.exe directly instead of the mxmlc ant tag. I kept running into the -flex-config+=YourConfig.xml for the command line option but never saw the xml variant.
http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/12/21/using-a-custom-flex-configxml-file-in-flex-builder -3/
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=configuring_environment_3.html
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http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/delete.html
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ClassLoader in JAR file not loading config file properly

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Hi
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I have the DB conection info in a config file.
Right now m accessing that info by loading it using a classloader n then parsing it.
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Or you could just include a relevant static block.
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Loading UI components from config file

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I wanted to know your opinion about a project that i'm working on.
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Well, I'm going to try to explain it a bit better.
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I recently got a new flash Application which is a Photo Gallery.
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It needs an XML file to find all the Photos it displays, to do it I need to configure my application in the HTML Page and give it the "xml_path" :
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No, nothing with HTML.
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Crystal Reports
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OK
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Thanks
Edited by: Balaji Narasimhan on Aug 3, 2009 5:28 PM

No way that I know of. I believe once you change the dependency, you will have to recompile the project. Installing CR 10.2, may get this to work, but the app will most likely use the 10.2 references. Let's see if anyone else has any ideas.
Ludek

How to load a file with out specifying its absolute location

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The above approach is working in certain cases, but not working when i try to do in a class which under a big package structure.
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Hi,
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Firefox cannot be closed; the following message appears: "Can't load resource file, can not run". How to solve this problem; I am using Windows XP SP3

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LV 6.1, 8.6.1, 2011 SP1, 2012 SP1

JimMacD wrote:
Thanks for the info.
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Using Bash script to edit config file

This is a really simple question, but given that I'm just learning Bash scripting and having this solved now would be really illustrative for me, I would really thank some help here.
I'm using uzbl, and running Tor+Polipo. So, as you will see below in the tail of the config file, there is a line to redirect the requests of uzbl through Polipo.
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if
tool 'set proxy_url = http://127.0.0.1:8123' config_file
then
tool '#set proxy_url = http://127.0.0.1:8123' config_file
else
if
tool '#set proxy_url = http://127.0.0.1:8123' config_file
then
tool 'set proxy_url = http://127.0.0.1:8123' config_file
fi
fi
I know little about sed, but I think is the tool for this job. The most intriging part to me is to ask sed to print the regular expression when it finds it in the config file, and use that as an input in the conditional statement.
Well, this is a mess I have done here. Hope there is a simple answer to this.
Thanks in advance.-

You can do this with a single sed command:
sed -i 's/^#set proxy_url/set proxy_url/;
t end;
s/^set proxy_url/#set proxy_url/;
: end' config_file
This edits the file in-place (-i) and first tries to replace the commented with the uncommented line. If that suceeds, sed jumps to the "end" label. If not, it tries to replace the uncommented with the commented line. Thus you don't have to include any logic about the current state: if the first substitution succeeds, the line was obviously commented, if not, it was uncommented, and the second substitution should succeed.
Note that my knowledge of sed is very limited. There might be a simpler way to do this.
EDIT: For the sake of example, here's how to do the same in bash using regular expressions. Note how this script needs to use a temporary file to simulate in-place editing, how it needs to process the file line by line manually, etc. All things that sed does out of the box...
#!/bin/bash
tmp=test.conf.tmp
echo -n "" > "$tmp"
while read line; do
if [[ "$line" =~ ^#set\ proxy ]]; then
echo "${line/\#/}" >> "$tmp"
elif [[ "$line" =~ ^set\ proxy ]]; then
echo "#$line" >> "$tmp"
else
echo "$line" >> "$tmp"
fi
done < test.conf
mv test.conf.tmp test.conf
To answer your original question, the line
if [[ "$line" =~ ^#set\ proxy ]]; then
reads: if the line begins with a "#", followed by "set proxy", then...
Last edited by hbekel (2011-03-20 10:40:16)

How to I import MAX 4.6 config files into MAX 5.5? Missing Data Neighborhood. Strain gage set up is different.

I have been trying to import my config file from MAX 4.6 into a new system running MAX 5.5 and daq 9.8.
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Attached JPG's.
Here is more information regarding the MAX Strain Set Up.
Attached are screen shots from MAX 4.6 and MAX 5.5.
Hardware: PXI chassis with bridge to a PC. SCXI-1520 input card.
Software: Old system: Windows XP SP2 running MAX 4.6 with niDAQmx 9.0.2,   programming in LabView 2011
                   New system: Windows 7 running MAX 5.5 with niDAQmx 9.8. Programming in LabView 2013
5.5: What is the gage factor? Is that the mv/v sensitivity of the load cell?
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5.5: How do I determine the Initial Voltage?
5.5: No choice of using V Excitation for scaling
5.5: Is Full Bridge I the same as 4.6 Full Bridge?
5.5: Requires use of Strain in scale factor
4.6: Requires use of Volts in scale factor (flags an error if I try Strain and requests Volts)
4.6: Choosing to use Vex for scaling makes readings look similar to 5.5 readings, but still not correct. ie around -79 in 5.5 and around -50 in 4.6 vs. 5.2 without.
Is there a way to set MAX 5.5 so that it provides the same starin set up function as 4.6? If so, what is it?
Thanks,
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Max 4.6 Strain Set Up.jpg ‏32 KB
Max 5.5 Strain Setup.jpg ‏23 KB
MAX 4.6 Strain Scale 2.JPG ‏165 KB

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