com.tomgibara.pronto.config.source
Interface PropertiesReader

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultPropertiesReader

public interface PropertiesReader

Implementations of this interface can be supplied to ConfigSource objects which obtain their data from binary streams to specify how properties are read from the data.

Author:

Tom Gibara

Method Summary

java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>

read(java.io.InputStream in) Reads the bytes from an input stream and returns a set of properties which have been extracted from it.

Method Detail

read

java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> read(java.io.InputStream in)
                                                      throws java.io.IOException

Reads the bytes from an input stream and returns a set of properties which have been extracted from it. This method exhausts the input stream but does not close it.

Parameters:

in - the input stream to be read

Returns:

the properties read from the supplied input stream

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if an exception occurs reading the stream