[Configuration] Problem with combining two xml-files

[Michael Post <mi...@web.de>]

Hello,

i use the current version (1.5) of commons configuration for my project
with commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar, commons-chain-1.2.jar,
commons-codec-1.3.jar, commons-collections-3.2.1.jar,
commons-digester-1.8.jar, commons-jxpath-1.2.jar, commons-lang-2.4.jar
und commons-logging-1.1.1.jar.

I want to read combine the two xml configuration files to one and later
i want to read some properties of it.

Like the tutorial on
http://commons.apache.org/configuration/userguide/howto_combinedconfiguration.html
i programmed my small plain Java application (ConfigTest.java) in which
i read both configurations like the tutorial. Some lines later i read
some properties of the configuration but all values are null.

I can not understand why / what is wrong.

Thanks for supporting me,

Michael

Re: [Configuration] Problem with combining two xml-files

[Oliver Heger <ol...@oliver-heger.de>]

Michael Post schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> i use the current version (1.5) of commons configuration for my project
> with commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar, commons-chain-1.2.jar,
> commons-codec-1.3.jar, commons-collections-3.2.1.jar,
> commons-digester-1.8.jar, commons-jxpath-1.2.jar, commons-lang-2.4.jar
> und commons-logging-1.1.1.jar.
> 
> I want to read combine the two xml configuration files to one and later
> i want to read some properties of it.
> 
> Like the tutorial on
> http://commons.apache.org/configuration/userguide/howto_combinedconfiguration.html
> i programmed my small plain Java application (ConfigTest.java) in which
> i read both configurations like the tutorial. Some lines later i read
> some properties of the configuration but all values are null.
> 
> I can not understand why / what is wrong.
> 
> Thanks for supporting me,
> 
> Michael
> 

The code for creating the combined configuration seems to be alright. I 
assume the problem lies in your usage of the getProperties() method, 
which probably does not what you expect. Have a look at the Javadocs for 
the Configuration interface.

I recommend that you try to read simple properties first using 
getString() or one of the other simple get() methods. I am not sure what 
you want to achieve with getProperties(). Maybe the configurationAt() 
method goes in this direction?

For debugging combined configurations you can use the following trick: 
Copy the content of the combined configuration into an XMLConfiguration:

CombinedConfiguration cc = ...
XMLConfiguration conf = new XMLConfiguration(cc);

Then the XMLConfiguration can be saved. The resulting XML file shows the 
structure of the combined configuration.

HTH
Oliver

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