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# Overview

#### Please run `git pull --tags` to update the tags. See [below](#updated-git-tags) why.

properties is a Go library for reading and writing properties files.

It supports reading from multiple files or URLs and Spring style recursive

property expansion of expressions like `${key}` to their corresponding value.

Value expressions can refer to other keys like in `${key}` or to environment

variables like in `${USER}`.  Filenames can also contain environment variables

like in `/home/${USER}/myapp.properties`.

Properties can be decoded into structs, maps, arrays and values through

struct tags.

Comments and the order of keys are preserved. Comments can be modified

and can be written to the output.

The properties library supports both ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 encoded data.

Starting from version 1.3.0 the behavior of the MustXXX() functions is

configurable by providing a custom `ErrorHandler` function. The default has

changed from `panic` to `log.Fatal` but this is configurable and custom

error handling functions can be provided. See the package documentation for

details.

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## Getting Started

```go

import (

	"flag"

	"github.com/magiconair/properties"

)

func main() {

	// init from a file

	p := properties.MustLoadFile("${HOME}/config.properties", properties.UTF8)

	// or multiple files

	p = properties.MustLoadFiles([]string{

			"${HOME}/config.properties",

			"${HOME}/config-${USER}.properties",

		}, properties.UTF8, true)

	// or from a map

	p = properties.LoadMap(map[string]string{"key": "value", "abc": "def"})

	// or from a string

	p = properties.MustLoadString("key=value\nabc=def")

	// or from a URL

	p = properties.MustLoadURL("http://host/path")

	// or from multiple URLs

	p = properties.MustLoadURL([]string{

			"http://host/config",

			"http://host/config-${USER}",

		}, true)

	// or from flags

	p.MustFlag(flag.CommandLine)

	// get values through getters

	host := p.MustGetString("host")

	port := p.GetInt("port", 8080)

	// or through Decode

	type Config struct {

		Host    string        `properties:"host"`

		Port    int           `properties:"port,default=9000"`

		Accept  []string      `properties:"accept,default=image/png;image;gif"`

		Timeout time.Duration `properties:"timeout,default=5s"`

	}

	var cfg Config

	if err := p.Decode(&cfg); err != nil {

		log.Fatal(err)

	}

}

```

## Installation and Upgrade

```

$ go get -u github.com/magiconair/properties

```

## License

2 clause BSD license. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/magiconair/properties/blob/master/LICENSE) file for details.

## ToDo

* Dump contents with passwords and secrets obscured

## Updated Git tags

#### 13 Feb 2018

I realized that all of the git tags I had pushed before v1.7.5 were lightweight tags

and I've only recently learned that this doesn't play well with `git describe` 😞

I have replaced all lightweight tags with signed tags using this script which should

retain the commit date, name and email address. Please run `git pull --tags` to update them.

Worst case you have to reclone the repo.

```shell

#!/bin/bash

tag=$1

echo "Updating $tag"

date=$(git show ${tag}^0 --format=%aD | head -1)

email=$(git show ${tag}^0 --format=%aE | head -1)

name=$(git show ${tag}^0 --format=%aN | head -1)

GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$date" GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$name" GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$email" git tag -s -f ${tag} ${tag}^0 -m ${tag}

```

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Frank