Use of property file

JMeter 35 pages. Start Jmeter. Unable to find the load of the property file in the log. The user. The command line options and properties files are processed in the following order: -p propfile. In the jmeter. The extension we use for the properties file is. Let us see the properties files:. Why we need a Properties file? Suppose you are creating a Java web-based project in that you are using some image path and that image path is used in different modules of your project.

So, if you want to alter something in the path you have to change it in every module instead of what we can do, we can create a properties file in that we can have the parameters for the path of the image inside this. So, this is the advantage of using a properties file. But instead, what we can do here we can keep all these configuration parameters in the system.

Skip to content. Change Language. Related Articles. Table of Contents. Improve Article. Save Article. So it is not possible to hard code. The usefulness is, that you don't have to recompile your program, if you had fixed the values in the code.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. But how could I know the other users user name and password In the scenario where you don't know, you have a number of alternatives, such as: telling the user to edit the properties file with a text editor, coding your application's installer to ask the for the username and password and then insert them into the properties file at install time, or providing a configuration tool or interface that allows the user to enter or update the properties.

Stephen C Stephen C k 90 90 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I guess-initially setting the parameters when the program starts and reading parameters when needed and using the retrieved values in the code?? The Properties class can support all of these. Thanks for your bullet points.. Good choices,I could do any one of these but doing this would only change the credentials in the prop file in the prop file which I have stored in specific path..

How could this result in change of the internal credentials which the other user sets during the installation?? I will describe my way to go - the basic idea is to use relative paths and always the same structure when you package your application: using deployment tool to create packages, easy to deploy.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog.