Details
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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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Operating System: All
Platform: All
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38075
Description
Please consider adding a configuration.subsets(String) method to return a list
of subset configurations that match the string query. This corresponds to the
configuration.subset(String) method that returns a single SubsetConfiguration.
I mentioned this in a thread on the user list [1]. I hope it can be added in
short order. I'm not sure whether returning a List or an Iterator would be
best? In any case, I would use it like this (assuming, for now, that it returns
a list)...
List subConfigs = config.subsets("tables.table");
for (Iterator iter = subConfigs.iterator(); iter.hasNext()
{
SubsetConfiguration subConfig = (SubsetConfiguration) iter.next();
}
...where if I was only trying to get one subset configuration at a time, I
might do...
SubsetConfiguration subConfig = (SubsetConfiguration)
config.subset("tables.table(0)");
Of course, I always use the subset configuration in the context of a
loop/iteration, since I need to deal with all of them (and where there may be
any number "tables.table" entries in the XML), not just one at a time leading to
the rather ugly while loop example I resorted to in the thread I referenced.
Does this seem reasonable to add to the next release?
[1] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-commons-user&m=113528247017087&w=2
Jake