Re: java - reading and writing preferences
Re: java - reading and writing preferences
- Subject: Re: java - reading and writing preferences
- From: "J. Todd Slack" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 9:51:03 -0400
- Organization: Slack Solutions
Frank,
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I have a plist file that i need to read from. Its generated as the
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output of
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"system_profiler -xml -detailLevel -1 > output.plist"
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The data is stored different than past projects that I have worked
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with. My app had all values between a single <dict> tag. The system
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profiler file has nested arrays, so there are several <dict> tags in
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the file. How do I read this type of file? Since there are arrays of
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data, there will be more than one record for things like DNS servers,
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IP addresses, and routers. These are all essential pieces of data that
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I need to read.
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I am debating to do this in objective c or java. I have done things in
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java, but never objective c. I do have books on cocoa with objective c,
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but i am still pretty clueless and the code syntax still looks very
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foreign to me.
Since Objective-C is foreign to you, stay Java.
To start you off, why don you look at XML Parsing in Java, Create a DOM
tree and raverse it to get your information.
http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.0/tutorial/doc/JAXPDOM.html
-Jason
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