[ARIES-1877] Array type properties do not evaluate as equal on reload update strategy (blueprint-cm)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: blueprint-cm-1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: blueprint-cm-1.3.2
• Component/s: Blueprint
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Shannon Gallagher
• Created: 12/Dec/18 20:30
• Updated: 16/Feb/21 06:24
• Resolved: 16/Feb/21 06:24

Description

When the CmPropertyPlaceholder is evaluating if configurations have been updated and it needs to reload, there is a bug if the properties being compared are arrays. In our use case, we are seeing string arrays that should be equal evaluate as not equal.

Code in question: https://github.com/apache/aries/blob/1afa8a3c181cca7896a764d4f9e902623873a172/blueprint/blueprint-cm/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/blueprint/compendium/cm/CmPropertyPlaceholder.java#L158-L160