Hi I wanted to run this feature request past the list, before filing a JIRA issue...
The iBATIS configuration file allows a number of different environments (including database names and credentials) to be specified. These are identified by environment name. The configuration file is parsed by the XMLConfigBuilder class. Now, I'm writing a library that uses iBATIS. The library will eventually be used by a number of different applications connecting to various databases. I don't want to (and neither am I able to) list every single database instance that the library will connect to in a single configuration file that is included with my library. I *could* put an iBATIS configuration file in every project that uses my library... but I don't want to duplicate the other aspects of the configuration file (such as the type aliases) in each project. So what are the options here? The XMLConfigBuilder constructor (the class that parses the config file) creates a new Configuration instance per XMLConfigBuilder instance, and it's only possible to specify a single Reader for a given XMLConfigBuilder. This seems to mean that I can't have the type aliases in an XML file in my library, and the environments in a separate XML file in the applications, and then combine the two, for the actual configuration. Is that right? I was thinking of filing an issue for the API to be modified to allow more than one configuration file to be used. What do you think? Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-java-unsubscr...@ibatis.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-java-h...@ibatis.apache.org
