/* GConfBasedPreferences.java -- GConf based Preferences implementation
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package gnu.java.util.prefs;
import gnu.java.util.prefs.gconf.GConfNativePeer;
import java.security.Permission;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.prefs.AbstractPreferences;
import java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException;
/**
* This is a GConf based preference implementation which writes the preferences
* as GConf key-value pairs. System Root is defined to be the
* "/system"
directory of GConf for the current user, while User
* Root is "/apps/java"
. These defaults can be modified by
* defining two system properties:
*
* User Root:
*
*
*
* gnu.java.util.prefs.gconf.user_root ** *
* gnu.java.util.prefs.gconf.system_root ** *
isUser
is true it will
* be user node otherwise it will be a system node.
*/
public GConfBasedPreferences(boolean isUser)
{
this(null, "", isUser);
}
/**
* Creates a new preference node given a parent node and a name, which has to
* be relative to its parent. When isUser
is true it will be user
* node otherwise it will be a system node.
*
* @param parent The parent node of this newly created node.
* @param name A name relative to the parent node.
* @param isUser Set to true
initializes this node to be
* a user node, false
initialize it to be a system node.
*/
public GConfBasedPreferences(AbstractPreferences parent, String name,
boolean isUser)
{
super(parent, name);
this.isUser = isUser;
// stores the fully qualified name of this node
String absolutePath = this.absolutePath();
if (absolutePath != null && absolutePath.endsWith("/"))
{
absolutePath = absolutePath.substring(0, absolutePath.length() - 1);
}
// strip invalid characters
// please, note that all names are unescaped into the native peer
int index = absolutePath.lastIndexOf('/');
if (index > -1)
{
absolutePath = absolutePath.substring(0, index + 1);
absolutePath = absolutePath + GConfNativePeer.escapeString(name);
}
this.node = this.getRealRoot(isUser) + absolutePath;
boolean nodeExist = backend.nodeExist(this.node);
this.newNode = !nodeExist;
}
/**
* Returns a child node with the given name.
* If the child node does not exists, it will be created.
*
* @param name The name of the requested node.
* @return A new reference to the node, creating the node if it is necessary.
*/
protected AbstractPreferences childSpi(String name)
{
// we don't check anything here, if the node is a new node this will be
// detected in the constructor, so we simply return a new reference to
// the requested node.
GConfBasedPreferences preferenceNode
= new GConfBasedPreferences(this, name, this.isUser);
return preferenceNode;
}
/**
* Returns an array of names of the children of this preference node.
* If the current node does not have children, the returned array will be
* of size
0 (that is, not null
).
*
* @return A String
array of names of children of the current
* node.
* @throws BackingStoreException if this operation cannot be completed.
*/
protected String[] childrenNamesSpi() throws BackingStoreException
{
ListString
array of keys stored under the current
* node.
* @throws BackingStoreException if this operation cannot be completed.
*/
protected String[] keysSpi() throws BackingStoreException
{
Listnull
is returned instead.
*
* @param key The key to retrieve.
* @return The value associated with the given key.
*/
protected String getSpi(String key)
{
return backend.getKey(this.getGConfKey(key));
}
/**
* Returns true
if this preference node is a user node,
* false
if is a system preference node.
*
* @return true
if this preference node is a user node,
* false
if is a system preference node.
*/
public boolean isUserNode()
{
return this.isUser;
}
/*
* PRIVATE METHODS
*/
/**
* Builds a GConf key string suitable for operations on the backend.
*
* @param key The key to convert into a valid GConf key.
* @return A valid Gconf key.
*/
private String getGConfKey(String key)
{
String nodeName = "";
// strip key
// please, note that all names are unescaped into the native peer
key = GConfNativePeer.escapeString(key);
if (this.node.endsWith("/"))
{
nodeName = this.node + key;
}
else
{
nodeName = this.node + "/" + key;
}
return nodeName;
}
/**
* Builds the root node to use for this preference.
*
* @param isUser Defines if this node is a user (true
) or system
* (false
) node.
* @return The real root of this preference tree.
*/
private String getRealRoot(boolean isUser)
{
// not sure about this, we should have already these permissions...
SecurityManager security = System.getSecurityManager();
if (security != null)
{
security.checkPermission(PERMISSION);
}
String root = null;
if (isUser)
{
root = System.getProperty("gnu.java.util.prefs.gconf.user_root",
DEFAULT_USER_ROOT);
}
else
{
root = System.getProperty("gnu.java.util.prefs.gconf.system_root",
DEFAULT_SYSTEM_ROOT);
}
return root;
}
}