[CONFIGURATION-59] [configuration] XMLConfiguration doesn't support attribute names with a dot

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.1

Environment

Operating System: Windows XP
Platform: PC

• Bugzilla Id: 37922
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: hc.luis
• Created: 16/Dec/05 02:08
• Updated: 16/May/06 12:06
• Resolved: 16/May/06 12:06

Description

This appeared to be fixed in 1.0 (COM-1431) but reappears in 1.1

With the new XMLConfiguration, which is hierarchical, properties with a dot in
their name apparently can be loaded, but the get methods don't find them.
For example:
<config>
<test>
<myservice-1.0>URL to my service 1.0</myservice-1.0>
<myservice-1.1>URL to my service 1.1</myservice-1.1>
</test>
</config>
I modified my configuration files to split dotted properties, for example:
<some.property>some value</some.property>
to
<some><property>some value</property></some>
This way we don't have to change our code and calls to
getString("some.property") continue to work.
The problem is that for some properties like myservice-1.0, splitting would
produce invalid xml:
<myservice-1><0>URL to my service 1.0</0></myservice-1>
so my clients are broken.
So now we have to change our config files and code, or continue using
Configuration 1.0