[infinispan-dev] configuration toProperties

Hi, This is a configuration output format feature proposal. I'd like to be able to flatten the infinispan cache configuration to flat properties style so that two configurations can be easily comparable in a view that displays sorted matching properties side by side to quickly spot differences. This is useful in our internal PerfRepo app where I do it so far by reflection, by patching the server or a radargun plugin by special addon, but this can lead to numerous errors. It would be much simpler and less error-prone process if we had it integrated in the upstream code. I proposed adding a method configuration.toProperties() that flattens properties of a configuration object (org.infinispan.configuration*Configuration) and produces java.util.Properties. The nested configuration objects under the main Configuration would recursively add their properties under an extended property prefix. I also added a possibility to specify --format=properties in the info command of the CLI so that the server responds with the property style configuration of the specific cache... https://github.com/mlinhard/infinispan/commit/d8360f7850b67956adfa29aca86... (I didn't implement toProperties in all objects, cause it's quite a lot of changes that would be made in vain in case you don't like this approach, the commit just demonstrates how I'd like to go about it.) These properties would also be exposed via JMX as (example values) jboss.infinispan:type=Cache,name="testCache(dist_sync)",manager="default",component=Cache attribute "configurationProperties" jboss.infinispan:type=CacheManager,name="default",component=CacheManager attribute "globalConfigurationProperties" that could be converted by any JMX client back to java.util.Properties WDYT? m. -- Michal Linhard Quality Assurance Engineer JBoss Datagrid Red Hat Czech s.r.o. Purkynova 99 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420 532 294 320 ext. 8262320 mobile: +420 728 626 363