diff -r f907866f0e4b -r 6fceb66e1ad7 org/sonews/daemon/Config.java
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+/*
+ *   SONEWS News Server
+ *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors
+ *
+ *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ *   (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *   This program 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 General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ *   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+package org.sonews.daemon;
+
+import org.sonews.util.Log;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import org.sonews.daemon.storage.Database;
+import org.sonews.util.AbstractConfig;
+import org.sonews.util.TimeoutMap;
+
+/**
+ * Provides access to the program wide configuration that is stored within
+ * the server's database.
+ * @author Christian Lins
+ * @since sonews/0.5.0
+ */
+public final class Config extends AbstractConfig
+{
+
+  /** Config key constant. Value is the maximum article size in kilobytes. */
+  public static final String ARTICLE_MAXSIZE   = "sonews.article.maxsize";
+  
+  /** Config key constant. Value: Amount of news that are feeded per run. */
+  public static final String FEED_NEWSPERRUN   = "sonews.feed.newsperrun";
+  public static final String FEED_PULLINTERVAL = "sonews.feed.pullinterval";
+  public static final String HOSTNAME          = "sonews.hostname";
+  public static final String PORT              = "sonews.port";
+  public static final String TIMEOUT           = "sonews.timeout";
+  public static final String MLPOLL_DELETEUNKNOWN = "sonews.mlpoll.deleteunknown";
+  public static final String MLPOLL_HOST       = "sonews.mlpoll.host";
+  public static final String MLPOLL_PASSWORD   = "sonews.mlpoll.password";
+  public static final String MLPOLL_USER       = "sonews.mlpoll.user";
+  public static final String MLSEND_ADDRESS    = "sonews.mlsend.address";
+  public static final String MLSEND_RW_FROM    = "sonews.mlsend.rewrite.from";
+  public static final String MLSEND_RW_SENDER  = "sonews.mlsend.rewrite.sender";
+  public static final String MLSEND_HOST       = "sonews.mlsend.host";
+  public static final String MLSEND_PASSWORD   = "sonews.mlsend.password";
+  public static final String MLSEND_PORT       = "sonews.mlsend.port";
+  public static final String MLSEND_USER       = "sonews.mlsend.user";
+  
+  public static final String[] AVAILABLE_KEYS = {
+    Config.ARTICLE_MAXSIZE,
+    Config.FEED_NEWSPERRUN,
+    Config.FEED_PULLINTERVAL,
+    Config.HOSTNAME,
+    Config.MLPOLL_DELETEUNKNOWN,
+    Config.MLPOLL_HOST,
+    Config.MLPOLL_PASSWORD,
+    Config.MLPOLL_USER,
+    Config.MLSEND_ADDRESS,
+    Config.MLSEND_HOST,
+    Config.MLSEND_PASSWORD,
+    Config.MLSEND_PORT,
+    Config.MLSEND_RW_FROM,
+    Config.MLSEND_RW_SENDER,
+    Config.MLSEND_USER,
+    Config.PORT,
+    Config.TIMEOUT
+  };
+
+  private static Config instance = new Config();
+  
+  public static Config getInstance()
+  {
+    return instance;
+  }
+  
+  private final TimeoutMap<String, String> values 
+    = new TimeoutMap<String, String>();
+  
+  private Config()
+  {
+    super();
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * Returns the config value for the given key or the defaultValue if the
+   * key is not found in config.
+   * @param key
+   * @param defaultValue
+   * @return
+   */
+  public String get(String key, String defaultValue)
+  {
+    try
+    {
+      String configValue = values.get(key);
+      if(configValue == null)
+      {
+        configValue = Database.getInstance().getConfigValue(key);
+        if(configValue == null)
+        {
+          return defaultValue;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+          values.put(key, configValue);
+          return configValue;
+        }
+      }
+      else
+      {
+        return configValue;
+      }
+    }
+    catch(SQLException ex)
+    {
+      Log.msg(ex.getMessage(), false);
+      return defaultValue;
+    }
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * Sets the config value which is identified by the given key.
+   * @param key
+   * @param value
+   */
+  public void set(String key, String value)
+  {
+    values.put(key, value);
+    
+    try
+    {
+      // Write values to database
+      Database.getInstance().setConfigValue(key, value);
+    }
+    catch(SQLException ex)
+    {
+      ex.printStackTrace();
+    }
+  }
+  
+}