[jira] [Commented] (CONFIGURATION-477) PropertyListConfiguration cannot deal with comments

["Emmanuel Bourg (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Emmanuel Bourg commented on CONFIGURATION-477:
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The specification I used to implement it didn't mention that comments were allowed.

http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Base/Reference/NSPropertyList.html

I checked the plist parser in the OpenStep code and it does indeed skip C-style comments (both block comments and line comments):

{code:java}
/*
 *	Property list parsing - skip whitespace keeping count of lines and
 *	regarding objective-c style comments as whitespace.
 *	Returns YES if there is any non-whitespace text remaining.
 */
static BOOL skipSpace(pldata *pld)
{
  unsigned char	c;

  while (pld->pos < pld->end)
    {
      c = pld->ptr[pld->pos];

      if (GS_IS_WHITESPACE(c) == NO)
	{
	  if (c == '/' && pld->pos < pld->end - 1)
	    {
	      /*
	       * Check for comments beginning '/' followed by '/' or '*'
	       */
	      if (pld->ptr[pld->pos + 1] == '/')
		{
		  pld->pos += 2;
		  while (pld->pos < pld->end)
{code}
                
> PropertyListConfiguration cannot deal with comments
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CONFIGURATION-477
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-477
>             Project: Commons Configuration
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Format
>    Affects Versions: 1.7
>            Reporter: Oliver Heger
>
> According to http://code.google.com/p/networkpx/wiki/PlistSpec a plist file can contain C-style comments. These are currently not recognized by {{PropertyListConfiguration}}.

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