Properties's load method

Question

Good morning,
I am trying to read a configuration file and then load its properties. I added a StringBuffered to be sure that the file was correct and it is. But at the moment to do the Properties load method, I don't get an exception and my Properties variable is empty.
I don't know if I am doing something wrong, this configuration file was already used in another application, so I am sure it is well encoding (ISO 8859-1).
Here my code
  private Properties loadProperties(Properties p_props, String p_propertyFile) {
    try {
      FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(p_propertyFile);
      BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
      String line;
      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
      while((line = reader.readLine())!=null) {
        sb.append(line).append("\n");
      p_props.load(inputStream);
      inputStream.close();
    }catch(IOException ioe) {
      m_log.error("Le fichier de properties est introuvable", ioe);
    }return p_props;
  }My properties file:
service.distribution.init.enabled=smtpDistributor
service.distribution.smtpDistributor.smtpHost=mail.company.com
Thank you in advance.
Elsy

Answer 1

You already read all lines into the buffer, so there is nothing left for p_props.load to read. Either reset or re-open the input stream or remove the buffer entirely.