[CONFIGURATION-306] INIConfiguration: Quoted values should not be trimmed

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

Environment

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• Assignee: Oliver Heger
• Reporter: John Smith
• Created: 01/Feb/08 19:23
• Updated: 22/Aug/09 19:36
• Resolved: 09/Feb/08 16:53

Description

I am reading in .ini files with quoted strings. Here is an example of a line:

CmdPrompt="[sdog@rosco ~]$ "

In Commons Configuration 1.4, this incorrectly reads in as "[sdog@rosco ~]$ ". When I saw that this had been addressed in 1.5, I was excited... until I started using 1.5. Now I don't get quotes, but I also don't get my trailing space, which is the reason I'm using quotes in the first place. I expect the offending line is the final line in the parseValue(String) method of INIConfiguration:

line 403:
return result.toString().trim();

Expected behavior: INIConfiguration should read in the exact string between the quotes, not a trimmed version.

I'm going back to 1.4 and my own code to strip the quotes. Please address this as I cannot move to future versions without it.