[infinispan-dev] configuration toProperties

[Mircea Markus]

On Nov 19, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Dan Berindei <dan.berindei at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the properties format is too closely tied to your particular use case - in general having a long prefix on every line would actual settings harder to see than in a structured format like XML/JSON/YAML, not easier. And if the cache name is repeated on every line, you can't easily compare the configuration of two nodes or of two caches - all the lines would be different.
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> I'm also not sure about implementing toProperties()/append(StringBuilder)/etc. in every configuration class instead of using reflection. We already have a lot of changes to make when we add/modify a setting, I'd rather not make that even harder than it is.

+1. I think an reflection based approach (toProperties implemented in the base config class and iterating over all defined fields) should be easy to implement and solve the problem .

Cheers,
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Mircea Markus
Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)