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/* Copyright 2007-2009 QSpin - www.qspin.be This file is part of QTaste framework. QTaste is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. QTaste is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with QTaste. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ package com.qspin.qtaste.config; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.List; import org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationException; import org.apache.commons.configuration.tree.ConfigurationNode; @SuppressWarnings("serial") public abstract class XMLConfiguration extends org.apache.commons.configuration.XMLConfiguration { public XMLConfiguration() { super(); } public XMLConfiguration(String file) throws ConfigurationException { super(file); } /** * Fetches the specified property. This task is delegated to the associated * expression engine. * * @param key the key to be looked up * @return the found value */ @Override public List<Object> getProperty(String key) { List<?> nodes = fetchNodeList(key); if (nodes.size() == 0) { return null; } else { List<Object> list = new ArrayList<Object>(); for (Iterator<?> it = nodes.iterator(); it.hasNext();) { ConfigurationNode node = (ConfigurationNode) it.next(); if (node.getValue() != null) { list.add(node.getValue()); } } if (list.size() < 1) { return null; } else { return list; } } } }