[infinispan-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (ISPN-4919) Configuration templates

[Tristan Tarrant (JIRA)]

Tristan Tarrant created ISPN-4919:
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             Summary: Configuration templates
                 Key: ISPN-4919
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-4919
             Project: Infinispan
          Issue Type: Feature Request
          Components: Configuration
            Reporter: Tristan Tarrant
            Assignee: Tristan Tarrant
             Fix For: 7.1.0.Alpha1


Currently there is a 1:1 relationship between configuration and named caches. While the programmatic API does have the ability to .read() an existing configuration to create a new one, the declarative config does not.
We should introduce the concept of configuration inheritance, e.g.:

<local-cache name="eviction-cache">
    <eviction strategy="LIRS" maxEntries="10000"/>
</local-cache>

<local-cache name="mycache" template="eviction-cache" />

Possibly, cache templates should be made "abstract" so that they cannot be instantiated as named caches directly, e.g.:

<local-cache name="eviction-cache" abstract="true">
...
</local-cache>




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