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Posted to commits@commons.apache.org by oh...@apache.org on 2013/08/24 21:52:47 UTC

svn commit: r1517191 - /commons/proper/configuration/trunk/src/changes/changes.xml

Author: oheger
Date: Sat Aug 24 19:52:46 2013
New Revision: 1517191

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1517191
Log:
Updated changes.xml.

Modified:
    commons/proper/configuration/trunk/src/changes/changes.xml

Modified: commons/proper/configuration/trunk/src/changes/changes.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/configuration/trunk/src/changes/changes.xml?rev=1517191&r1=1517190&r2=1517191&view=diff
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--- commons/proper/configuration/trunk/src/changes/changes.xml (original)
+++ commons/proper/configuration/trunk/src/changes/changes.xml Sat Aug 24 19:52:46 2013
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@
   <body>
     <release version="2.0" date="in SVN"
       description="TBD">
+      <action dev="oheger" type="add" issue="CONFIGURATION-551">
+        The data type conversion mechanism has been made extensible. There is a
+        new interface ConversionHandler which controls the data type conversions
+        available for a configuration object. By setting a custom implementation,
+        conversions can be adapted or extended.
+      </action>
       <action dev="oheger" type="add" issue="CONFIGURATION-550">
         Conversion to Character is now supported.
       </action>
@@ -135,6 +141,11 @@
         ImmutableConfiguration, and ImmutableHierarchicalConfiguration have
         been introduced.
       </action>
+      <action dev="oheger" type="add" issue="CONFIGURATION-508">
+        Generic get() methods have been added to the Configuration interface.
+        These methods expect a target class and try to convert the value of
+        the specified property to this target class.
+      </action>
       <action dev="oheger" type="update" issue="CONFIGURATION-506">
         Removed obsolete nested classes Node and NodeVisitor of
         HierarchicalConfiguration. The related deprecated class
@@ -175,6 +186,13 @@
       <action dev="oheger" type="update" issue="CONFIGURATION-330">
         Concurrent access to configurations has been reworked.
       </action>
+      <action dev="oheger" type="update" issue="CONFIGURATION-26">
+        It is now possible to influence the conversion from a container object
+        (a collection or an array) to a single value (e.g. what is returned by
+        getString() if the current property has multiple values). Per default,
+        the first value is returned. By overriding methods of the
+        configuration's ConversionHandler, this behavior can be changed.
+      </action>
     </release>
 
     <release version="1.9" date="2012-08-22"