New Language: Java Properties

AUTHORS.en.txt

@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ Contributors:
 - Hale Chan <[email protected]>
 - Matt Evans <[email protected]>
 - Kasper Andersen <[email protected]>
+- Michael Gerbig <[email protected]>
 - Philipp A. <[email protected]>
 - Guannan Wei <[email protected]>
 - Sam Wu <[email protected]>

CHANGES.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ New languages:
 
 - *Hy* by [Sergey Sobko][]
 - *Leaf* by [Hale Chan][]
+- *Properties* by [Michael Gerbig][]
 - *N1QL* by [Andres Täht][] and [Rene Saarsoo][]
 
 Improvements:

docs/css-classes-reference.rst

@@ -344,6 +344,8 @@ Language names and aliases
 +-------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
 | Prolog                  | prolog                                            |
 +-------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
+| Properties              | properties                                        |
++-------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
 | Protocol Buffers        | protobuf                                          |
 +-------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
 | Puppet                  | puppet, pp                                        |

src/languages/properties.js

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/*
+Language: Java Property Files
+Author: Michael Gerbig <[email protected]>
+Contributors:
+Description: language definition for Java Property files
+Category: common, config
+*/
+
+function(hljs) {
+  return {
+    contains: [
+      hljs.COMMENT(
+        '^\\s*[\\!#]',
+        '$'
+      ),
+      {
+        className: 'variable',
+        begin: /^[^:=]+/m,
+        illegal: ".*\\S\\s\\S.*"
+      },
+      {
+        className: 'string',
+        begin: /[=:]\s*/,
+        end: /[^\\]$/,
+        excludeBegin: true,
+        relevance: 0,
+        contains: [
+          {
+            className: 'symbol',
+            begin: /\\(t|n|r|u[0-9A-Fa-f]{4})/
+          },
+          {
+            className: 'meta',
+            begin: /\\$/
+          },
+          "self"
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+  };
+}

test/detect/properties/default.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+pi=3.141
+time=01.01.1900
+integer=1337
+float=12.34
+
+! I am a comment
+# Me too!
+
+propertyA = I am a property
+property_C:ABC
+propertyD : Just another string
+
+multiline=\
+        This is a multiline property. The following line is no property!\
+        multiline=this is no property
+
+! Last Comment
+lastProperty = bye :)