Your thoughts on INI config?

[Les Hazlewood <le...@hazlewood.com>]

Hi folks,

I'm reaching out to see what people prefer for INI config, as it will
determine the final format for the upcoming 1.0 release:

Currently for a web-based app that uses INI configuration, you can
specify a [filters] and [urls] sections in addition to the other
standard sections ([main], [users] and [roles]).

Strictly speaking, both the [main] and [filters] sections do exactly
the same thing - create object graphs for Dependency Injection-based
configuration.   Since both sections are purely for configuring object
graphs, what do you prefer:

1) Just have a single [main] section that configures _all_ objects
(including filters)? or
2) Retain 2 sections for name-spacing.

If we go with a single section, all of the default filters ('authc',
'authcBasic', 'port', 'ssl', etc) would just be normal beans in the
[main] section for a webapp.  The only risk is that people could
accidentally overwrite these default filters if they name one of their
beans the same as a default filter - but I think the odds of that
happening in practice would be very low.

Thoughts?  Preferences?

Thanks!

Les

Re: Your thoughts on INI config?

[Paul Merlin <pa...@nosphere.org>]

Hi Les,

> If we go with a single section, all of the default filters ('authc',
> 'authcBasic', 'port', 'ssl', etc) would just be normal beans in the
> [main] section for a webapp.  The only risk is that people could
> accidentally overwrite these default filters if they name one of their
> beans the same as a default filter - but I think the odds of that
> happening in practice would be very low.

I think that's true even with two sections. What if I override autcBasic with 
my own bean/filter in the [filter] section ?
I would not bother with this issue as long as it's documented.

More generally, I prefer simple things, that means simple code too. Both 
solutions will work for me and all I have to say is : got the simpler/smarter 
way according to the underlying code so that it's easy to understand/maintain.

my 2c

/P