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Mark H. Wood updated DS-1390:
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Assignee: Mark H. Wood
Status: Accepted (was: Volunteer Needed)
> DSpace has too many configurations
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> Key: DS-1390
> URL: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1390
> Project: DSpace
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: DSpace API
> Reporter: Mark H. Wood
> Assignee: Mark H. Wood
> Fix For: 4.0
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> DSpace has two separate places to go for configuration: ConfigurationManager
> and ConfigurationService. While very similar, they do work differently, and
> they generate extra work to keep them similar. I recently wanted to answer a
> question on dspace-tech concerning configuration of uninstalled webapp.s run
> from the IDE during development, and realized that *the situation was too
> complex to describe*. I'd like to simplify things quite a bit.
> I suggest several phases:
> 1. ConfigurationManager contains a number of methods that have nothing to do
> with simple configuration properties, but rather deal with license texts and
> news items and the like. These should be moved to classes directly concerned
> with representing them. In particular, XMLUI has its own way of handling
> news, so JSPUI should house the one currently in dspace-api, which is only
> used by JSPUI.
> Removing methods not dealing with serialized Properties will align the
> signatures of ConfigurationManager and ConfigurationService much more closely.
> 2. Review the overall design of access to configuration data. Each
> configuration source has grown a number of handy features over the years, but
> I think it's time to do another design pass over the whole issue of how we
> find bits of DSpace that the JVM doesn't inherently know about, and then
> implement a single model which well serves both development and production.
> 3. Gut ConfigurationManager, replacing the existing code with wrappers for
> the most closely corresponding ConfigurationService methods. Deprecate all
> ConfigurationManager methods.
> 4. See whether there are useful things only in ConfigurationManager which
> should be ported to ConfigurationService.
> 5. As time permits, replace ConfigurationManager uses.
> I recall that there are proposals to change the way that configuration data
> are stored and manipulated. I think that this simplification and refactoring
> should at the very least not impede such efforts, and may complement them
> nicely. The current (near) duplication of function OTOH does somewhat impede
> those efforts.
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