Wiki source code of Best Practices-Properties Files
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27.1 | 1 | === Properties Files === |
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27.1 | 3 | ==== User-Specific Properties Files ==== |
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25.1 | 5 | You can have any number of **Properties.username** files in your project's Resources directory in-addition-to the default **Properties** file. These Properties.username files will automatically load based on which user is launching the application. This allows you to have custom logging, email, database, etc configuration settings for each developer. |
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28.1 | 7 | This capability can also be (ab)used in combinination with the Launch parameter **-Duser.name** to specify Production vs Staging/Development properties. For example: a launch parameter of **-Duser.name=deployment** will cause **Properties.deployment** to be read when the application in launched. |
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| 9 | This can be very useful for automatically changing database connection configurations based on whether or not an application is being run in Production or Development. | ||
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| 11 | ==== Development Only Properties File ==== | ||
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| 13 | You can set properties that will only be active if the project is run in Development mode by creating a **Properties.dev** file. It will be loaded for all users. | ||
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| 15 | === Database Connection Properties === | ||
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| 17 | While the easiest place to set connection properties is in the EOModel, a better place to put them is in the Properties system, that way you can leverage the flexibility of launch-time loading of Properties so that you set connection info for each user, for development or for deployment. | ||
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| 19 | ==== Model-Specific Connection Properties ==== | ||
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30.1 | 21 | {{code}} |
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27.1 | 22 | MyEOModel.URL = |
| 23 | MyEOModel.DBUser = | ||
| 24 | MyEOModel.DBPassword = | ||
| 25 | MyEOModel.DBDriver = | ||
| 26 | MyEOModel.DBPlugin = | ||
| 27 | MyEOModel.DBJDBCInfo = | ||
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30.1 | 28 | {{/code}} |
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| 30 | ==== Global Connection Properties ==== | ||
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| 32 | These settings will allow you to set the connection properties for all the EOModels in your project. | ||
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30.1 | 34 | {{code}} |
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27.1 | 35 | dbConnectURLGLOBAL = |
| 36 | dbConnectUserGLOBAL = | ||
| 37 | dbConnectPasswordGLOBAL = | ||
| 38 | dbConnectDriverGLOBAL = | ||
| 39 | dbEOPrototypesEntityGLOBAL = | ||
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30.1 | 40 | {{/code}} |