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Version Date Description
1.3 2006-09-24
1.3-rc2 2006-09-03
1.3-rc1 2006-07-30
1.2 2005-12-17
1.2-rc3 2005-12-07
1.2-rc2 2005-11-23
1.2-rc1 2005-11-11
1.1 2005-04-02
1.1-rc2 2005-03-06
1.1-rc1 2005-02-13
1.0 2004-10-11
1.0-rc2 2004-09-24
1.0-rc1 2004-08-14

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Release 1.3 - 2006-09-24

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Release 1.3-rc2 - 2006-09-03

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update AbstractFileConfiguration now overrides addProperty() and setProperty() instead of addPropertyDirect() to implement the auto save feature. This was necessary to properly integrate PropertiesConfigurationLayout. It has also the advantage that an auto save is triggered only once if multi-valued properties are involved (before a save operation was performed for each property value). Fixes CONFIGURATION-223. Thanks to Gabriele Garuglieri . oheger
update The new PropertiesConfigurationLayout class broke the save() operation of PropertiesConfiguration when an instance was newly created and populated in memory. This is fixed now by ensuring that a layout object is immediately created and registered as event listener at the con figuration. Fixes CONFIGURATION-222. Thanks to Gabriele Garuglieri . oheger
add ConfigurationFactory now supports variables in its configuration definition files. These variables are resolved using system properties and have the typical ${} syntax. Fixes CONFIGURATION-221. Thanks to Rainer Jung . oheger
update There were still some problems with resolving relative paths when configuration files are loaded from classpath. This fix addresses these issues. Fixes CONFIGURATION-216. Thanks to Gabriele Garuglieri . oheger
update DataConfiguration.getDateArray() used to ignore the format argument. This was fixed. Fixes CONFIGURATION-220. oheger
update PropertiesConfiguration now defines its own clone() method to handle the associated PropertiesConfigurationLayout object correctly. Fixes CONFIGURATION-219. oheger

Release 1.3-rc1 - 2006-07-30

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update The dependency to servletapi was updated from version 2.3 to version 2.4, but version 2.3 will still work. Fixes CONFIGURATION-217. oheger
add A new class PropertiesConfigurationLayout was introduced whose task is to preserve the structure (e.g. comments, blanc lines) of a file loaded by PropertiesConfiguration. Each PropertiesConfiguration object is now associated with such a layout object. A saved properties file will look very similar to its original. Fixes CONFIGURATION-104. oheger
add clone() methods have been added to BaseConfiguration, AbstractFileConfiguration, MapConfiguration, CompositeConfiguration, and CombinedConfiguration. So the most important Configuration imple mentations now support cloning. To ConfigurationUtils an utility method cloneConfiguration() was added that allows to conveniently clone a configuration. Fixes CONFIGURATION-145. oheger
update If a configuration file was to be loaded from classpath, the constructor of AbstractFileConfiguration dropped the file's path. The path is now taken into account. Fixes CONFIGURATION-216. oheger
update The getter methods for numeric data types in AbstractConfiguration now support conversions between different Number types, e.g. you can now call getLong(key) when key points to an Integer value. Fixes CONFIGURATION-214. oheger
add The new class DefaultConfigurationBuilder was added as an alternative to ConfigurationFactory. It provides some more features and creates a CombinedConfiguration object oheger
add The new class CombinedConfiguration was added as a hierarchical alternative to CompositeConfiguration. oheger
add Support for low-level configuration events was added to all classes derived from AbstractConfiguration. The major part of this is handled by the new super class EventSource of AbstractConfiguration. Fixes CONFIGURATION-143. oheger
add A new method convertToHierarchical() was added to ConfigurationUtils, which is able to convert an arbitrary configuration object into a hierarchical configuration. oheger
update Loading of file-based configurations no longer throws a NullPointerException in setups where the thread context class loader is not set. Fixes CONFIGURATION-63. oheger
update The dependency to dom4j was removed; it was only used by two test classes, which have been re-written. oheger
update XMLConfiguration used to drop the DOCTYPE declaration when saving the configuration. It is now able to extract the DTD's public and system ID and write them back (more complex DOCTYPE declarations are still not supported). With the new methods setSystemID() and setPublicID(), the DOCTYPE declaration can be configured. Fixes CONFIGURATION-100. oheger
add Added two new constructors in CompositeConfiguration accepting a collection of configurations as a parameter. Fixes CONFIGURATION-178. ebourg
add (Basic) Support for declaring beans in configuration files was added. Some new classes in the beanutils package allow to create instances from these declarations. Fixes CONFIGURATION-186. oheger
update The implementation of the interpolation features have been extracted out off AbstractConfiguration and moved to PropertyConverter. The interpolateHelper() method of AbstractConfiguration is now deprectated and will not be called any more during interpolation. oheger
add A new method configurationsAt() was added to HierarchicalConfiguration that provides a convenient way of iterating over complex list-like structures without the need of manually constructing configuration keys with indices. Fixes CONFIGURATION-182. oheger
add A new class SubnodeConfiguration was introduced that wraps a configuration node of a HierarchicalConfiguration. All operations performed on this configuration use this wrapped node as root. The new configurationA t() method of HierarchicalConfiguration returns such a SubnodeConfiguration for a specified sub node. oheger
add With XPathExpressionEngine an expression engine for hierarchical configurations is now available that can evaluate XPATH expressions in property keys. This expression engine implementation is based on Commons JXPath, which is now declared as a new dependency (but at runtime it is only needed if the XPathExpressionEngine class is used). Fixes CONFIGURATION-173. oheger
add The code for interpreting property keys was refactored out off HierarchicalConfiguration. Instead this class now supports pluggable expression engines (using the setExpressionEngine() method). So it is possible to plug in different expression languages. A default expression engine is provided that understands the native expression language used by hierarchical configurations in older versions. During the process of this refactoring some methods of HierarchicalConfiguration have been deprecated; they will not be called any more when searching or adding properties. These are the following: createAddPath(), fetchAddNode(), findLastPathNode(), findPropertyNodes(). oheger
update A larger refactoring was performed on the inner Node class of HierarchicalConfiguration: A ConfigurationNode interface was extracted for which a default implementation (DefaultConfigurationNode) is provided. HierarchicalConfiguration.Node now extends this default implementation. The new ConfigurationNode interface defines some more methods than the Node class did originally for conveniently dealing with sub nodes and attributes. HierarchicalConfiguration now uses the new type ConfigurationNode whereever possi ble. Some methods dealing with Node objects have been deprecated and replaced by versions operating on ConfigurationNode objects instead. oheger
update All configuration classes derived from AbstractConfiguration now allow to set an instance specific list delimiter. This can be done through the new method setListDelimiter(). As before it is possible to define a default list delimiter, which will be used if no instance specific delimiter is set. This can be done using the new setDefaultListDelimiter() method (the methods get/setDelimiter() have been deprecated). With the new setDelimiterParsingDisabled() method parsing of lists can be disabled at all. Fixes CONFIGURATION-155. Thanks to Jorge Ferrer . oheger

Release 1.2 - 2005-12-17

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Release 1.2-rc3 - 2005-12-07

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update Commons Configuration now declares a dependency to Xalan. As with Xerces this dependency is only needed for JDK 1.3. It was introduced in a process of making Configuration buildable on a JDK 1.3. Documentation about the build process was also added. oheger
update The dependency to Commons Beanutils Collections was unnecessary and thus removed. oheger
update Commons Configuration now depends on Commons Digester 1.6 instead of 1.5. (This was done only to pick up the latest available release of digester.) oheger

Release 1.2-rc2 - 2005-11-23

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update ConfigurationDynaBean now implements the java.util.Map interface (as was stated in the javadocs). This was done by deriving the class from ConfigurationMap. Fixes CONFIGURATION-2. oheger

Release 1.2-rc1 - 2005-11-11

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update The reload() method in AbstractFileConfiguration was updated to prevent reentrant invocation, which may be caused by some methods when they are called during a reloading operation. Fixes CONFIGURATION-33. oheger
update AbstractHierarchicalFileConfiguration, a new base class for file based hierarchical configurations, was introduced. XMLConfiguration now extends this class. ebourg, oheger
update XMLConfiguration now prints the used encoding in the xml declaration of generated files. In earlier versions always the default encoding was written. PropertiesConfiguration now always uses the platform specific line separator when saving files. Fixes CONFIGURATION-41. Thanks to Kay Doebl . oheger
update PropertiesConfiguration now translates properly the escaped unicode characters (like \u1234) used in the property keys. This complies with the specification of java.util.Properties. Fixes CONFIGURATION-8. ebourg
update ConfigurationConverter.getProperties() now uses the delimiter of the specified configuration to convert the list properties into strings. Fixes CONFIGURATION-123. ebourg
update The interpolation of variables (${foo}) is now performed in all property getters of AbstractConfiguration and DataConfiguration. As a side effect the Properties object returned by ConfigurationConverter.getProperties() contains only interpolated values. Fixes CONFIGURATION-123. ebourg
update PropertiesConfiguration now uses the ISO -8859-1 encoding by default instead of the system encoding to comply with the specification of java.util.Properties. Fixes CONFIGURATION-35. ebourg
update JNDIConfiguration no longer logs an error when attempting to get a property that doesn't exist in the configuration. Fixes CONFIGURATION-44. ebourg
update Attempting to load a configuration from a directory instead of a file will now throw a ConfigurationException. Fixes CONFIGURATION-99. ebourg
update If a multi-valued property was involved in an interpolation operation, AbstractConfiguration created a string representation of the list of all values. This was changed to only use the first value, which makes more sense in this context and is consistent with other getters for single valued properties. Fixes CONFIGURATION-28. oheger
add If an include file with a relative path cannot be found in the base path, PropertiesConfiguration now also tries to resolve it based on its own location. Fixes CONFIGURATION-83. oheger
update Fixed MapConfiguration to store the list of values added under a same key instead of the last value added. Fixes CONFIGURATION-117. Thanks to Steve Bate . ebourg
update Fixed a bug in the handling of relative file names in ConfigurationFactory: In most cases relative file names were not resolved relative to the location of the configuration definition file as stated in the documentation. This behavior was now changed to always be in sync with the documentation. This may have an impact on existing code which uses workarounds for the erroneous resolving mechanism. Fixes CONFIGURATION-80. oheger
update Empty elements or elements whose content consists only of comments or whitespace are now taken into account by XMLConfiguration. They are added to the configuration; their value is an empty string. Fixes CONFIGURATION-6. oheger
add XMLConfiguration now sets a valid system id in the InputSource used for loading files. This enables XML parsers to correctly resolve relative files, e.g. DTDs. oheger
update getKeys() in HierarchicalConfiguration now returns the keys in the same order the properties were inserted. Fixes CONFIGURATION-74. ebourg
update Commons Configuration now depends on Commons Collections 3.1 instead of 3.0 ebourg
add New configurations implementing the "property list" format used in NeXT/OpenStep and its XML variant used in Mac OS X. (PropertyListConfiguration and XMLPropertyListConfiguration) Fixes CONFIGURATION-195. ebourg
update Resolved some issues with XMLConfiguration and properties containing the delimiter character. These properties are now correctly treated, escaping the delimiter will work, too. Fixes CONFIGURATION-97. oheger
add Added support for XMLPropertiesConfiguration in ConfigurationFactory. A < properties> element will generate a XMLPropertiesConfiguration if the filename ends with ".xml". ebourg
add PropertiesConfiguration now supports escaped key/value separators in the keys (i.e foo\:key = bar). Fixes CONFIGURATION-184. ebourg
add PropertiesConfiguration now supports all key/value separators supported by java.util.Properties ('=', ':' and white space characters). Fixes CONFIGURATION-166. ebourg
update Commons Configuration now depends on Commons Lang 2.1 instead of 2.0 ebourg
update Comment lines for PropertiesConfiguration can start with the '!' char (compatibility with java.util.Properties). Fixes CONFIGURATION-207. ebourg
update Because ConfigurationUtils.copy() does not fully support hierarchical configurations a clone() method was added to HierarchicalConfiguration that can be used instead. Fixes CONFIGURATION-84. oheger
add XMLConfiguration now provides some support for validating XML documents. With the setValidating() method DTD validation can be enabled. It is also possible to set a custom DocumentBuilder allowing a caller to perform enhanced configuration of the XML loading process. Fixes CONFIGURATION-206. oheger
update AbstractFileConfiguration now always sets a valid base path if the configuration file could be located. This allows PropertiesConfiguration to resolve include files even when loaded from class path. Fixes CONFIGURATION-121. oheger
update Updated XMLConfiguration to correctly deal with properties containing dots in their names. Such properties could not be accessed before. Fixes CONFIGURATION-85. oheger
update PropertiesConfiguration's handling of backslash characters at the end of line was incorrect when there was an even number of trailing backslashes. This is now fixed. Fixes CONFIGURATION-9. oheger
update Fixed a problem related to file based configurations that are loaded from a URL which is application/x-www-form-urlencoded: the save() method would store such files at a wrong location. Fixes CONFIGURATION-130. oheger
update Updated FileChangedReloadingStrategy to use the file based configuration's source URL to find the file to watch. Before that it was possible that the strategy checked the wrong file. For configuration files loaded from a jar FileChangedReloadingStrategy now checks the jar file itself for changes. Finally a bug was fixed which caused the strategy to check the watched file's last change date on every invocation of its reloadingRequired() method ignoring its refresh delay. Thanks to Jorge Ferrer. Fixes CONFIGURATION-50. oheger
update Fixed a bug in the collaboration between XMLConfiguration and its reloading strategy: The configuration did not check its reloading strategy, so no reload was performed. Fixes CONFIGURATION-62. oheger
update Disabled auto save mode during PropertiesConfiguration.load(). Prior it was possible that the properties file to be loaded was immideately overwritten. Fixes CONFIGURATION-119. oheger
update Under certain circumstances it was possible that a reloading strategy set for PropertiesConfiguration interferred with the save() method causing the configuration file to be erased. This has now been fixed. Fixes CONFIGURATION-89. oheger
update AbstractFileConfiguration now stores the URL of the config file in the load() methods. This URL is reused by the save() method to ensure that the same file is written. Fixes CONFIGURATION-94. Thanks to Jamie M. Guillemette . oheger
update XMLPropertiesConfiguration no longer depends on Digester to parse the configuration file, it's now implemented with a pure SAX parser. Thanks to Alistair Young . ebourg
update Fixed a bug which causes XMLConfiguration.save to lose attribute values under some circumstances. The clear() method now also ensures that the associated DOM document is always cleared. Fixes CONFIGURATION-49. Thanks to Mi Zhang . oheger
update XMLConfiguration now parse the configuration using the encoding declared in the XML header instead of the OS default encoding. Fixes CONFIGURATION-13. Thanks to Kunihara Tetsuya . ebourg
update XMLConfiguration now uses the delimiter set by setDelimiter(char). Thanks to Zsolt Koppany . ebourg

Release 1.1 - 2005-04-02

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update Fixed a ConcurrentModificationException thrown when calling clear() on a SubsetConfiguration applied to a BaseConfiguration. Fixes CONFIGURATION-134. ebourg
update The resolveContainerStore() method in AbstractConfiguration now works properly with arrays of objects and arrays of primitives. This means it is possible to store an array of value in the configuration and retrieve the first element with the getString(), getInt()... methods. Fixes CONFIGURATION-81. ebourg

Release 1.1-rc2 - 2005-03-06

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update Updated documentation for FileConfiguration's load() methods. Fixed a problem in XMLConfiguration with the output of the save() method when multiple files were loaded. Fixes CONFIGURATION-118. oheger
update Fixed a bug in FileChangedReloadingStrategy preventing the detection of a file change in some cases. ebourg
update Changed getXXXArray() and getXXXList() in DataConfiguration to return an empty array/list for empty values. ebourg
update Fixed getLongArray(), getFloatArray() and getDoubleArray() in DataConfiguration, the values were cast into integers. Fixes CONFIGURATION-58. ebourg

Release 1.1-rc1 - 2005-02-13

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add ConfigurationFactory now always configures digester to use the context classloader. This avoids problems in application server environments, which use their own version of digester. Thanks to Mike Colbert for the patch! Fixes CONFIGURATION-88. oheger
add Added a new configuration, XMLPropertiesConfiguration, supporting the new XML format for java.util.Properties introduced in Java 1.5. A 1.5 runtime is not required to use this class. Fixes CONFIGURATION-148. ebourg
add Added a comment header to PropertiesConfiguration. The header is not parsed when the file is loaded yet. Fixes CONFIGURATION-190. ebourg
add Added the setEncoding(String) and the getEncoding() methods to the FileConfiguration interface to control the encoding of the configuration file. ebourg
add Access to the top level element of the XML document is now provided. For newly created configurations this element can be changed before the document is written. Fixes CONFIGURATION-210. oheger
update Merg ed the two XML related configuration classes into one new class XMLConfiguration. This new class should provide the best of its ancestors. Fixes CONFIGURATION-168. oheger
update Replaced the PropertyTokenizer inner class in AbstractConfiguration with the split method in PropertyConverter. Also moved the method building an iterator on the elements of a composite value in PropertyConverter as toIterator(). ebourg
fix Some cleanup of the handling of the base path in file based configurations. The base path is now always taken into account. Fixes CONFIGURATION-15. oheger
fix Calling getProperties on a JNDIConfiguration no longer throws an UnsupportedOperationException. ebourg
remove Removed the getPropertyDirect method from AbstractConfiguration, concrete configurations now implement directly the getProperty method from the Configuration interface. ebourg
add Added implementation of a save() method for HierarchicalXMLConfiguration. Fixes CONFIGURATION-187. oheger
update Constructing a file based configuration with a File no longer throws an exception when the file doesn't exist. ebourg
add Saving a configuration now creates the path to the file if it doesn't exist. ebourg
update AbstractFileConfiguration.save(File) no longer fails silently when an error occurs, a ConfigurationException is thrown instead. Fixes CONFIGURATION-45. ebourg
fix ConfigurationUtils.locate() now checks if the URL based resources exist. This fixes a bug preventing c onfiguration files from being found if the configuration descriptor is in a JAR file (reported by Grant Ingersoll). ebourg
fix Fixed NPE that were caused in the constructors of file based configurations if an invalid file name was specified. Fixes CONFIGURATION-96. oheger
add Added support for optional configuration sources in definition files for ConfigurationFactory. A new optional attribute allows to specify whether a configuration source is mandatory or optional. Fixes CONFIGURATION-162. oheger
fix JNDIConfiguration.getKeys() now returns an empty iterator instead of throwing a ConfigurationRuntimeException when a NamingException occurs. The NamingExceptions are now logged. ebourg
fix DatabaseConfiguration.isEmpty() now returns true if an SQLException occurs. ebourg
add Added two methods copy(Configuration, Configuration) and append(Configuration, Configuration) in ConfigurationUtils to copy properties between configurations. ebourg
update Moved the constructors implementations from PropertiesConfiguration and XMLConfiguration to AbstractFileConfiguration. ebourg
remove Remove deprecated getVector() implementations. epugh
add File based configurations can now be automatically reloaded when the underlying file is modified. Fixes CONFIGURATION-147. ebourg
add Added a clear() method to the Configuration interface to remove all properties. Fixes CONFIGURATION-156. ebourg
add Added a SystemConfiguration wrapping the system properties. ConfigurationFactory recognizes the corresponding < system/ > element. Fixes CONFIGURATION-208. ebourg
add Added a MapConfiguration to turn any Map into a Configuration. The getConfiguration() methods in ConfigurationConverter now use MapConfiguration, as a result the Configuration returned is always synchronized with the underlying Properties or ExtendedProperties, changes made to the Configuration are available in the Properties, and reciprocally. ebourg
add The "autoSave" feature of XMLConfiguration has been generalized to all file based configurations. Fixes CONFIGURATION-146. ebourg
add Numeric properties can now be specified in hexadecimal format, for example "number = 0xC5F0". Fixes CONFIGURATION-191. ebourg
fix Fixed HierarchicalConfiguration.getKeys(String), it returned an empty iterator if the prefix string contained indices. Fixes CONFIGURATION-36. oheger
add Added a DataConfiguration decorator providing getters for all useful types found in a configuration (URL, Locale, Date, Calendar, Color, lists and arrays) ebourg
add Added 5 new configurations to be used in a web environment: AppletConfiguration, ServletConfiguration, ServletContextConfiguration, ServletRequestConfiguration, ServletFilterConfiguration. ebourg

Release 1.0 - 2004-10-11

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fix The getStringArray() method in CompositeConfiguration now interpolates the strings. Fixes CONFIGURATION-66. ebourg
fix SubsetConfiguration now shares the "throwExceptionOnMissing" property with its parent. Fixes CONFIGURATION-23. ebourg
fix Removed "file:" at the beginning of the base path when calling setFile() on a FileConfiguration. This prevented auto saving an XMLConfiguration loaded from a File (issue reported by Mark Roth). ebourg
update All NamingEnumerations in JNDIConfiguraiton are now properly closed (Suggested by Eric Jung). ebourg
fix Properties added to an XMLConfiguration are no longer duplicated in the resulting XML file. Fixes CONFIGURATION-90. ebourg

Release 1.0-rc2 - 2004-09-24

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update Unified the mechanisms for loading and saving file based configurations. PropertiesConfiguration, XMLConfiguration and HierarchicalXMLConfiguration now implement the same FileConfiguration interface. BasePathLoader, BasePathConfiguration, ClassPropertiesConfiguration and BasePropertiesConfiguration have been removed. ebourg
fix Replaced the calls to Boolean.booleanValue(boolean) in AbstractConfiguration and ConfigurationDynaBean to be Java 1.3 compatible. Fixes CONFIGURATION-22. ebourg
fix Changing the prefix of a JNDIConfiguration will now reset the base context used. Fixes CONFIGURATION-112. ebourg
add The context used by JNDIConfiguration can be specified in its constructor or through the setContext() method. The context can be accessed with the getContext() method which is now public. Thanks to Eric Jung . ebourg
add Make the behaviour on missing properties for the get methods that return objects configurable. A property throwExceptionOnMissingcan be set and then the getters throw an NoSuchElementException. The old default behaviour of returning a nullvalue has been restored. henning
add Allow configurations extending AbstractConfiguration to change the delimiter used from "," to something else. Fixes CONFIGURATION-151. epugh
fix PropertiesConfiguration.save() method has issues with preserving the filename epugh
fix Test cases for HierarchicalConfigurationXMLReader stores comments as text nodes. Fixes CONFIGURATION-132. Thanks to Mark Woodman . epugh
fix Clarify for ConfigurationDynaBean that the get method should throw an illegalArgumentException if there is no property specified. Fixes CONFIGURATION-183. Thanks to Ricardo Gladwell . epugh
fix Fixed a ClassCastException when adding a non String property to an XMLConfiguration. Fixes CONFIGURATION-25. ebourg
fix Fixed the handling of attribute properties by HierarchicalConfigurationConverter. Fixes CONFIGURATION-138. Thanks to Oliver Heger . ebourg
fix Fixed a ClassCastException thrown on adding a non string property in a DatabaseConfiguration. Fixes CONFIGURATION-125. ebourg
add Bring back the getVector() methods in the Configuration interface. These methods are needed for " drop-on " replacement of the various pre-1.0 commons-configuration snapshots and are already deprecated. These metho ds will be removed for 1.1. henning

Release 1.0-rc1 - 2004-08-14

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add HierarchicalConfigurationXMLReader stores comments as text nodes. Fixes CONFIGURATION-132. Thanks to Oliver Heger . epugh
add project.xml contains bad dependencies. Fixes CONFIGURATION-122. Thanks to Ricardo Gladwell . epugh
add clearXmlProperty doesn't remove list properties completely. Fixes CONFIGURATION-64. Thanks to Brent Worden . epugh
add new ConfigurationDynaBean. Fixes CONFIGURATION-183. Thanks to Ricardo Gladwell . epugh
add new ConfigurationMap and ConfigurationSet. Fixes CONFIGURATION-185. Thanks to Ricardo Gladwell . epugh
fix Problem adding property XMLConfiguration. Fixes CONFIGURATION-91. Thanks to Ricardo Gladwell . epugh
remove ConfigurationXMLDocument removed until post 1.0. epugh
fix DatabaseConfiguration doesn't support List properties. Fixes CONFIGURATION-18. epugh
fix Fixed several bugs related to XMLConfiguration:
  • Can't add a new property as an attribute in XMLConfiguration
  • XMLConfiguration doesn't support attribute names with a dot
  • XMLConfiguration doesn't ignore comments
  • XMLConfiguration.save() doesn't escape reserved characters
ebourg
add Added save methods in XMLConfiguration similar to PropertiesConfiguration to save the configuration to another file. Fixes CONFIGURATION-114. ebourg
update Removed the DOM4J implementations in favor of the DOM ones. DOMConfiguration has been renamed to XMLConfiguration, and HierarchicalDOMConfiguration to HierarchicalXMLConfiguration. The elements parsed by the ConfigurationFactory have been changed accordingly. ebourg
add Added a save() method to PropertiesConfiguration and save(Writer out), save(OutputStream out), save(OutputStream out, String encoding) to BasePropertiesConfiguration. ebourg
fix List values are now properly stored as comma separated values in the Properties object returned by ConfigurationConverter.getProperties() Fixes CONFIGURATION-98. ebourg
update Introduced a ConversionException thrown when the value of a property is not compatible the type requested. It replaces the ClassCastException and the NumberFormatException thrown previously. ebourg
fix Tokens like ${ref} in a PropertyConfiguration are now properly saved. Fixes CONFIGURATION-174. ebourg
fix The getList() method of a CompositeConfiguration now returns the list composed of the elements in the first matching configuration and the additional elements found in the in memory configuration. Fixes CONFIGURATION-127. ebourg
fix SubsetConfiguration returns a List on getList(). AbstractConfiguration wouldn't properly deal with a List, only with a Container for getList()! Thanks to jschaible for the unit test. epugh
add Direct support of XML via DOM. New classes DOMConfiguration and HierarchicalDOMConfiguration. jschaible
update Update build to not include test configuration files in resulting jar. jschaible
update Refactored JNDIConfiguration to use AbstractConfiguration. ebourg
update Fixed invalid subsets by refactoring out the subset logic into a SubsetConfiguration. Fixes CONFIGURATION-76. ebourg
fix Reapply the ConfigurationXMLDocument that went missing during migration out of sandbox. oheger
update Apply ASL 2.0 license. Thanks to Jeff Painter for scripting the conversion! epugh
add Changed CompositeConfiguration to extend from AbstractConfiuration. This means that the behavior of CompositeConfiguration is much similar to others like PropertiesConfiguration in handling of missing keys, interpolation, etc.. Previously CompositeConfiguration had quite a few differences. epugh
update Removed "defaults" from BaseConfiguration. Defaults are now done via using a CompositeConfiguration, either directly or via a ConfigurationFactory. if you want to save changes made to a Configuration, then you use a CompositeConfiguration and get back the inMemoryConfiguration that has the delta of changes. Added a bit of documentation on this. epugh
update Enhancement: Configuration Comparator. Fixes CONFIGURATION-154. epugh
update BaseConfiguration: containsKey ignores default properties. I have changed it so that now the defaults are paid attention to. Fixes CONFIGURATION-54. epugh
add The Configuration interface now supports BigDecimal and BigInteger numbers. ebourg
add ConfigurationException is now thrown by public methods instead of Exception or IOException or whatnot. epugh
add For configuration based on properties files, allow characters like \n etc to be escaped and unescaped. ebourg
add New DatabaseConfiguration that uses a database to store the properties. It supports 2 table structures :
  • one table per configuration (2 colums key/value)
  • one table for multiple configurations (2 columns key/value + 1 column for the name of the configuration)
ebourg
add ConfigurationFactory now supports the hierarchicalDom4j element in configuration definition file oheger
update Change all Vector objects to List objects. ebourg
add ConfigurationFactory now supports two types of properties files, additional and override. Additional properties add each other together. Override override each other. This allows you to have a single property that is either aggregated from a number of sources, or have a property that is overridden according to a specific order of sources. oheger
update AbstractConfiguration addProperty now delegates to an abstract addPropertyDirect implemented by BaseConfiguration. oheger
update Changed getString() method to throw a NoSuchElementException instead of "" if the configuration property doesn't exist. kshaposhnikov
add Added AbstractConfiguration to make it easier to create subclasses by only having to implement the methods required. kshaposhnikov
fix ClassPropertiesConfiguration Additions
  • Use the classloader of class that is provided by the constructor.
  • Add a constructor that indicates whether to use relative or absolute.
  • Change getPropertyStream to utilize the relative or absolute flag.
  • Add a test case that checks that absolute paths work.
bdunbar
fix JNDIConfiguration.getKeys() AdditionThe JNDIConfiguration.getKeys() method was returning an unsupported operation error. However, this is an important method to have supported. epugh
fix CompositeConfiguration.getKeys() FixThe CompositeConfiguration.getKeys() method was returning an unordered list of configuration values. However, many apps expect the order that keys are returned to be the order they are added into the properties file. epugh