[CONFIGURATION-259] ConfigurationFactory Merge is broken

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3
• Fix Version/s: 1.4

Environment

Windows XP running Eclipse, JDK 1.4.2

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Karl Banke
• Created: 28/Mar/07 08:47
• Updated: 22/Aug/09 19:36
• Resolved: 30/Mar/07 09:35

Description

I am trying to merge two Configuration using the ConfigurationFactory and the additional tag. It turns out that subsequent operations on the merged data provide wrong results. In particular, after creating a particular subset from a loaded configuration, the subset is empty. Strangely enough, when using DefaultConfigurationBuilder to load exactly the same configurations this works properly.

So when initializing the configuration as follows, I get the following error:

URL configURL = getClass().getResource(configFile);
ConfigurationFactory factory = new ConfigurationFactory();
factory.setConfigurationURL(configURL);
myConfig = factory.getConfiguration();

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java.util.NoSuchElementException: 'HvNr' doesn't map to an existing object
at org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractConfiguration.getLong(AbstractConfiguration.java:743)
at de.awd.vertriebsportal.portal.person.TestConfiguration.main(TestConfiguration.java:84)
Exception in thread "main"

But when initializing it like this everything works properly

DefaultConfigurationBuilder builder = new DefaultConfigurationBuilder();
builder.setURL(configURL);
myConfig = builder.getConfiguration();

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I will attach full source code and xml files