[jira] [Updated] (CONFIGURATION-248) Safeguard config source abstraction by using HierarchicalConfiguration as supertype for all configs

["Oliver Heger (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Oliver Heger updated CONFIGURATION-248:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 2.0)
                   2.x

> Safeguard config source abstraction by using HierarchicalConfiguration as supertype for all configs
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>                 Key: CONFIGURATION-248
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-248
>             Project: Commons Configuration
>          Issue Type: Wish
>    Affects Versions: 1.3
>         Environment: -
>            Reporter: Dennis Kuehn
>             Fix For: 2.x
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> I hope I get this right:
> When I have a CompositeConfiguration, the nice thing about it is that I don't have to care in which file or file type a config entry has been defined. Now when part of my CompositeConfiguration has a hierarchical structure and I need the API provided by HierarchicalConfiguration, I lose the aforementioned abstraction: I need to cast a specific part of my CompositeConfiguration to HierarchicalConfiguration. This is a major design problem!
> It would be better to leverage the Composite Pattern here: derive all configuration classes from HierarchicalConfiguration. Put differently, move the HierarchicalConfiguration API to Configuration. Even if a config is not hierarchically structured, methods for hierarchical access will be present, but that's a minor drawback which is intrinsic to the Composite Pattern. This also happens when you are modelling a tree structure and you have a common supertype "Node" which has a method "getSubNodes()" which will also be present in leaf node instances (in this case, "getSubNodes()" would return null etc.).



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