Java.util.Resource Bundle.Control.getTimeToLive() Method

Description

The java.util.ResourceBundle.Control.getTimeToLive(String baseName,Locale locale) method Returns the time-to-live (TTL) value for resource bundles that are loaded under this ResourceBundle.Control.

Positive time-to-live values specify the number of milliseconds a bundle can remain in the cache without being validated against the source data from which it was constructed.

The value 0 indicates that a bundle must be validated each time it is retrieved from the cache. TTL_DONT_CACHE specifies that loaded resource bundles are not put in the cache. TTL_NO_EXPIRATION_CONTROL specifies that loaded resource bundles are put in the cache with no expiration control.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.util.Control.getTimeToLive() method

public long getTimeToLive(String baseName, Locale locale)

Parameters

• baseName − the base name of the resource bundle for which the expiration value is specified.

• locale − the locale of the resource bundle for which the expiration value is specified.

Return Value

This method returns the time (0 or a positive millisecond offset from the cached time) to get loaded bundles expired in the cache, TTL_NO_EXPIRATION_CONTROL to disable the expiration control, or TTL_DONT_CACHE to disable caching.

Exception

NullPointerException − if baseName or locale is null

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.util.ResourceBundle.Control.getTimeToLive() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.ResourceBundle;
import java.util.ResourceBundle.Control;

public class ResourceBundleControlDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      // create a new ResourceBundle.Control with default format
      ResourceBundle.Control rbc = ResourceBundle.Control.getControl(Control.FORMAT_DEFAULT);

      // print time to live
      System.out.println("" + rbc.getTimeToLive("hello", Locale.US));
   }
}

Assuming we have a resource file hello_en_US.properties available in your CLASSPATH, with the following content. This file will be used as an input for our example program −

hello = Hello World!

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

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