How to substitute dynamic placeholder in properties file

This blog will explain you how can you use replace placeholder with original value in properties file. To achieve this task we will you Java API MessageFormat.

Suppose you have properties file named "welcome.properties" having message :

welcome=Hi {0} , Welcome to {1}

Sample : 

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.text.MessageFormat;
import java.util.Properties;

/**
 * @author abdul
 *
 */
public class DynamicPlaceholder {

/**
* @param args
* @throws Exception 
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
File propFile = new File("D:\\juno\\Practise\\src\\com\\waheed\\dynamic\\placeholder\\substitution\\welcome.properties");
Properties props = new Properties();
FileInputStream stream=new FileInputStream(propFile);
props.load(stream);
String message = props.getProperty("welcome");
               // Here the {0} and {1} will be substitute with "Waheed" and "India".
String welcome = MessageFormat.format(message, "Waheed","India");
System.out.println("Your message : " + welcome);
}
}

Output : 

Your message : Hi Waheed , Welcome to India