[CONFIGURATION-504] HierarchicalConfiguration clear() method doesn't remove the node from its parent anymore in XML source

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8
• Fix Version/s: 2.0
• Assignee: Oliver Heger
• Reporter: Adrien CLERC
• Created: 21/Aug/12 14:18
• Updated: 24/Mar/16 20:20
• Resolved: 21/Sep/12 19:13

Description

Using an XML source file, I used to call HierarchicalConfiguration.clear() on an object to remove it from its parent. Now, it just clear the text and the subnodes, but not the node itself, nor its own attribute, when the file is saved.
Here is the code that works :

ConfigurationNode oldNode = configuration.getRootNode();
oldNode.getParentNode().removeChild(oldNode);

configuration belong to a list of HierarchicalConfiguration that I obtained from configurationsAt. I didn't see any other way to remove a node I got from that method, without explicit casting to SubnodeConfiguration.