On Dec 18, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Thomas Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> In remap.config order is everything. Its great because it makes the configs
> easy to read and easy to parse. One problem that i've found is that it isn't
> quite true-- each remap type is actually done in order -- which means the
> order of lines in the file is not the "actual" order of remap.
>
> My suggestion is to change the remap processing to remove the type ordering
> and just follow the order within the file. This should help a lot with
> on-boarding new users as well as make bigger user's configs easier to manage.
This has been a long standing issue :-/. See
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-81
Yes. We should fix this, order should be the only thing that matters IMO.
Anything else renders the non-“map” directives mostly useless.
— Leif
