[jira] [Commented] (FELIX-4844) Store configuration data in a diff-tool friendly way

["Balazs Zsoldos (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Balazs Zsoldos commented on FELIX-4844:
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Would anyone please with the role check the pull request and either

 - accept it
 - discard it
 - suggest enhancements or modifications

I think it is a common issue that developers have dev-test-live systems and want to merge configurations between them. This patch would make it much easier to check the differences with simple command-line tools between the configs.

Thanks!

> Store configuration data in a diff-tool friendly way
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FELIX-4844
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-4844
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: Configuration Admin
>            Reporter: Balazs Zsoldos
>
> We store our configuration with the sources in the source-code control system (git). It often happens that multiple developers work on the same project and they modify the configuration parallel. It would not be a problem if the config files were diff-tool friendly. To achieve this goal, two improvements would be necessary:
> *Store entries in alphabetically ordered list*
> In the config files, the entries should be stored sorted by ABC. It is easy to implement by overriding HashTable in the same way that LinkedHashMap overrides HashMap.
> *Store array values in multiple lines*
> At the moment a setting with two values are stored like this:
> key=["value1", "value2"]
> Instead of this, I would store it in the following format (each entry on new line):
> key=[ \
>   "value1", \
>   "value2" \
>   ]
> *Question*
> Do you think that if I prepare a patch for this, that would be accepted?



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