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  1. Commons Configuration
  2. CONFIGURATION-362

XMLPropertyListConfiguration doesn't handle empty dictionary correctly

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 1.6
    • 1.7
    • None
    • None

    • Mac OS X 10.5.6 JDK 1.5

    Description

      Empty "dict" elements are not handled properly. During printing of a configuration, configuration nodes that have no children and no value are assumed to be "strings" (see XMLPropertyListConfiguration.java:printValue()'s last "else" clause). <dict/> is parsed in such a way (see startElement() and endElement() of that same file) that it ends up creating a configuration node with no children and no value. Thus printing out a parsed property list will print <string>null</string> everywhere an empty dictionary was in the input.

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            ebourg Emmanuel Bourg
            travellingman Kent McPhee
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