Hi Andrea,

variable substitution might be quite easy to achieve when implemented in
the config parsing layer - XStream.
XStream has "Converters" for example for to-string conversion. That might
work, affecting all configurations globally.
What do you think?

Best regards,
Andreas

2016-02-24 18:02 GMT+01:00 Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Andreas Watermeyer <
> andreas.waterme...@its-telco.de> wrote:
>
>> I think it would be nice to have variable substitution in various
>> settings, like external URLs. Maybe substitution from system property
>> or the like. But I suppose variable substitution is not yet available,
>> is it?
>>
>
> It is not indeed. For database connections you can use JDNI to externalize
> the connection pool configuration, but for the rest, no support yet.
> (and yes, it is annoying).
>
> I agree it would be great to have some level of variable substitution...
> for datastores I believe it may not be too hard, if there are other
> settings it might get annoying... as in, it will be a case by case thing.
> A guide for these requests:
>
> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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