[CONFIGURATION-155] [configuration] Instance specific list delimiter

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Nightly Builds
• Fix Version/s: 1.4

Environment

Operating System: All
Platform: All

• Bugzilla Id: 35828
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Emmanuel Bourg
• Created: 22/Jul/05 19:39
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:28
• Resolved: 09/Jan/07 21:37

Description

The delimiter used to split the properties is declared as a static field in
AbstractConfiguration. That means we cannot have two instances of the same
concrete implementation of AbstractConfiguration using a different delimiter.

To adress this issue I suggest the following changes:

• rename the private DELIMITER field into DEFAULT_LIST_DELIMITER

• add the static methods setDefaultListDelimiter and getDefaultListDelimiter

• deprecate get/setDelimiter in AbstractConfiguration in favor of
  get/setDefaultListDelimiter

• add a non static field listDelimiter initialized with DEFAULT_LIST_DELIMITER

• add the getListDelimiter and setListDelimiter methods to access the
  listDelimiter field

• call getListDelimiter() instead of getDelimiter()

Issue Links

• depends upon: CONFIGURATION-203 Make Configuration Serializable