[CONFIGURATION-339] ConfigurationConverter does not handle CompositeConfiguration correctly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.6
• Component/s: Interpolation

Environment

OS X 10.5.5, java version "1.6.0_07", Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b06-153)

• Assignee: Oliver Heger
• Reporter: William DeMoss II
• Created: 13/Oct/08 20:10
• Updated: 22/Aug/09 19:36
• Resolved: 16/Oct/08 20:21

Description

ConfigurationConverter doesn't seem to respect the ordering of a composite configuration. I am having problems describing the behavior, but I thinks the following test case illustrates it best:

@Test
public void showBug() {
PropertiesConfiguration p = new PropertiesConfiguration();
p.addProperty("foo", "initial");
p.addProperty("bar", "${foo}");
p.addProperty("prefix.foo", "override");

CompositeConfiguration cfg = new CompositeConfiguration();
cfg.addConfiguration(p.subset("prefix"));
cfg.addConfiguration(p);

// this assertion passes as expected since the subset
// was added first to the composite configuration
Assert.assertEquals("override", cfg.getString("bar"));

// after converting to properties, this assertion fails and
// reports that the value is 'initial'
Properties properties = ConfigurationConverter.getProperties(cfg);
Assert.assertEquals("override", properties.getProperty("bar"));
}