This sample demonstrates that the Preferences API may be used without a filesystem access. In this case, naturally, there's no way of saving the altered settings, they may only be accessed in the memory.
This sample program expect the .ini file as a command line argument. If there is no such argument, it use the dwarfs.ini file.
import org.ini4j.IniPreferences; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.util.prefs.Preferences; public class StreamSample { public static final String FILENAME = "dwarfs.ini"; public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String filename = (args.length > 0) ? args[0] : FILENAME; Preferences prefs = new IniPreferences(new FileInputStream(filename)); for (String key : prefs.node("sleepy").keys()) { System.out.println("sleepy/" + key + " = " + prefs.node("sleepy").get(key, null)); } } }
Standard output:
sleepy/weight = 76.11 sleepy/height = 87.78 sleepy/age = 121 sleepy/homePage = http://snowwhite.tale/~sleepy sleepy/homeDir = /home/sleepy sleepy/fortuneNumber = 99