[jboss-as7-dev] Descriptions of non-simple attributes

For jboss-as-threads I wrote pretty full model descriptors, however for values such as <keepalive-time time="100" unit="ms"/> I split this into two attributes in the model node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME_DURATION, DESCRIPTION).set(bundle.getString("threadpool.common.keepaliveduration")); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME_DURATION, TYPE).set(ModelType.LONG); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME_DURATION, REQUIRED).set(false); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME_UNIT, DESCRIPTION).set(bundle.getString("threadpool.common.keepaliveunit")); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME_UNIT, TYPE).set(ModelType.STRING); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME_UNIT, REQUIRED).set(false); //threadpool.common.keepaliveduration=Used to specify the amount of time that pool threads should be kept running when idle; if not specified, threads will run until the executor is shut down. //threadpool.common.keepaliveunit=The time unit for the number specified in keepalive-time-duration. Working on the marshalling I see Emanuel takes a different approch by passing in simple sub-elements like this as a ModelNode which is more elegant. That is kind of what I wanted to do but didn't really know how to write the description in a nice way. Since there are not many descriptors yet I'd like to clarify the structure and find the best practice. My original thought was that the structure would have to go in the node's description attribute (ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, DESCRIPTION below), but it might be nicer to do something like this: node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, DESCRIPTION).set("Used to specify the amount of time that pool threads should be kept running when idle; if not specified, threads will run until the executor is shut down")); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, TYPE).set(ModelType.OBJECT); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, REQUIRED).set(false); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, TIME, DESCRIPTION).set("The time")); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, TIME, TYPE).set(ModelType.LONG); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, TIME, REQUIRED).set(false); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, UNIT, DESCRIPTION).set("The time unit (Seconds, Milliseconds etc.)")); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, UNIT, TYPE).set(ModelType.STRING); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, UNIT, REQUIRED).set(false); And if the keepalive-time attribute is optional but if present both time and unit sub-attributes must be specified, I think we would go with something like node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, REQUIRED).set(false); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, TIME, REQUIRED).set(true); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, UNIT, REQUIRED).set(true); If it is keepalive-time is required and unit is optional, how about node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, REQUIRED).set(true); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, TIME, REQUIRED).set(true); node.get(ATTRIBUTES, KEEPALIVE_TIME, UNIT, REQUIRED).set(false);