adutra commented on PR #1124:
URL: https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/1124#issuecomment-2704282942
My general feeling about `FeatureConfiguration` is that it's too schemaless.
I don't think this PR addresses that, but I think it's something that needs to
be addressed soon.
A typical configuration class in a Quarkus application would like like this:
```java
@ConfigMapping(prefix = "polaris.feature")
interface FeatureConfiguration {
boolean configX();
Optional<String> configY();
List<String> configZ();
}
```
However, we currently have this:
```java
@ConfigMapping(prefix = "polaris.feature")
interface FeatureConfiguration {
Map<String, String> defaults();
}
```
Where the map values are dynamically parsed as json, then each map entry is
collated against the fields in `PolarisConfiguration`:
```java
public class PolarisConfiguration<T> {
public static final PolarisConfiguration<Boolean> CONFIG_X = ...
public static final PolarisConfiguration<String> CONFIG_Y = ...
public static final PolarisConfiguration<List<String>> CONFIG_Z = ...
}
```
This makes the code quite brittle, as it's not possible to statically
compile it against an existing method like `FeatureConfiguration.configX()`.
I understand that the goal is to be able to override things on different
levels, by realm for instance – and I think that's a great idea. But there are
other ways to achieve that while preserving a strongly-typed configuration
mechanism.
Let's discuss this at the next meeting, but I would suggest to refactor this
by grouping the configuration options into logical groups inside one or many
configuration classes.
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