Hey all, I have just submitted a bug and an attached patch that modifies PropertiesConfiguration to preserve the line comments of a properties file when saving it. This allows for applications to change configuration and save it, without making the file incomprehensible to humans that may try to edit it in the future.
See http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39182 for the change. Many applications would not consider this bug a problem, since they do not allow user editing of the properties files or the do not change properties from within the program. Therefore, comment preservation can be disabled, and for backward compatibility (and reducing memory usage by the properties mechanism), it is disabled by default. I can think some improvements that may make this change even more useful, such would be: - Commenting out the property line when using "clearProperty" - Pulling up the change in such way that it would apply to configuration formats other than properties. As well as other ideas that come to mind. Any comments would be most welcome. Oded Noam --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]