[infinispan-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (ISPN-948) Support XML marshaling of Configuration instances

Support XML marshaling of Configuration instances ------------------------------------------------- Key: ISPN-948 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-948 Project: Infinispan Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Configuration Affects Versions: 4.2.1.CR3 Reporter: Jürgen Kellerer Assignee: Manik Surtani Fix For: 5.0.0.Final Attachments: Feature_ISPN-948_Support_XML_marshaling_of_Configuration_instances.patch, Feature__ISPN-948__Support_XML_marshaling_of_Configuration_instances.patch Original Estimate: 4 hours Time Spent: 4 hours Remaining Estimate: 0 minutes Infinispan supports a very flexible way of configuring caches using multiple levels of inheritance. While this is really nice, it is sometimes not easy to understand how exactly a particular cache was configured. (E.g. JPA is just one example where a cache configuration can be adjusted in several ways). JMX or debuggers help but may not always be available. What about allowing to convert a configuration instance back to XML to give a quick overview of the really applied settings. _(Optionally it might also be a nice little feature to implement a "toXmlString();" method or override the default and also make this available through JMX)_ JAXB annotations are already present on all configurable options but a couple getters and a @XmlRootElement annotation is missing that would allow to convert an existing instance back to XML. The effort in doing this should be rather low. --- This feature request may also fit with #ISPN-791 as it would allow to transfer cache configs using XML.