Reading property having multiline values

[steveukx]

Reading property having multiline values

[quilicicf]

Hi,

Resurrecting this issue because I think I understand it and can provide an example.

my.multi.line.property=This is a property soooooo long that I had to \
  split into multiple lines, otherwise it would literally get unreadable.

The backslash-escape specifies a continuation line and is documented somewhat succinctly in Oracle's documentation (search for continuation line).

Currently, the reader extracts the continued lines as keys rather than continuations of the previous value.

Which means I end up with:

{
  _properties: {
    'my.multi.line.property': 'This is a property soooooo long that I had to \',
    'split into multiple lines, otherwise it would literally get unreadable.': '',
  }
}

[kiprobinson]

I found that the properties library handles this correctly.

Change from:

const Properties = require('properties-reader');
const props = new Properties('myfile').path();

To this:

const properties = require('properties');
const props = properties.parse(fs.readFileSync('myfile').toString(), {namespaces: true});

[steveukx]

I don't think that properties files support multi-line content, which is why this library doesn't. If you can add into the issue a reference for how a regular properties file represents multi-line content, I'll re-open this issue add it into the library for you (or please feel free to submit a pull request).