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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34103 ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-03-21 22:10 ------- Ittay, I aggree with your points about the behavior of getter methods when the requested property is missing. Then, if the "exception mode" is enabled, always an exception should be thrown. But I can't follow your points about handling of list and single properties. I was always fine with the feature that getString() would return the first element of a list. Your idea with supporting convertes from bean utils is interesting, but I would add it to DataConfiguration rather than to the core Configuration classes (and I am not sure if this feature is really needed). My impression is that that a typical user of the Configuration API has at least a certain idea about the properties defined in the configuration files. More over in most cases the configuration files will be written in a way to match the needs of the application. So it seems reasonable that the Configuration API supports a set of default data types the properties can be converted to, but I see no need to implement a fully featured data conversion framework. So I guess if we implemented some of the points mentioned in the discussion above, e.g. concatenation operations for lists, throwing exceptions but only in a "strict" mode, we might confuse most of the users - I surely would be confused ;-) So, I say KISS - keep it stupid and simple! -- Configure bugmail: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
