What is the best way to serialize Delphi application configuration?

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I will answer this question myself, but feel free to provide your answers if you are faster than me or if you don\'t like my solution. I just came up with this idea and would li

Answer 1

This would be for Java.

I like to use the java.util.Properties class for reading in config files or properties files. What I like is that you put your file with lines in the same way you showed above (key=value). Also, it uses a # (pound sign) for a line thats a comment, kind of like a lot of scripting languages.

So you could use:

ShowFlags=true
# this line is a comment    
NumFlags=42

etc

Then you just have code like:

Properties props = new Properties();
props.load(new FileInputStream(PROPERTIES_FILENAME));
String value = props.getProperty("ShowFlags");
boolean showFlags = Boolean.parseBoolean(value);

Easy as that.