An administrator may find it useful to be able to view the configuration properties of a remote Ice application. For example, the IceGrid administrative tools allow you to query the properties of active servers. The Properties facet supplies this functionality.
The Ice::PropertiesAdmin interface provides access to the communicator's configuration properties:
Slice
module Ice {
interface PropertiesAdmin {
string getProperty(string key);
PropertyDict getPropertiesForPrefix(string prefix);
};
};
The getProperty operation retrieves the value of a single property, and the getPropertiesForPrefix operation returns a dictionary of properties whose keys match the given prefix. These operations have the same semantics as those in the Ice::Properties interface.