[DELTASPIKE-1084] Integrate configuration sources expressed as URLs.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: Configuration
• Assignee: Mark Struberg
• Reporter: Pablo Pita Leira
• Created: 23/Feb/16 10:17
• Updated: 06/Apr/22 15:26
• Resolved: 06/Apr/22 15:26

Description

The PropertyFileUtils class can load the properties file as follows :

        String root = System.getProperty("user.dir");
    	String path = root + "/src/test/resources/myurlconfig.properties";
        String urlPath = "file:/" + path;
    	URL propertyFileUrl = new URL(urlPath);
	Poperties p = PropertyFileUtils.loadProperties(propertyFileUrl);

Using the following code to incorporate the properties does not work:

public class MyUrlCustomPropertyFileConfig implements PropertyFileConfig
{
	
    @Override
    public String getPropertyFileName()
    {
    	String root = System.getProperty("user.dir");
    	String path = root + "/src/test/resources/myurlconfig.properties";
        return "file:/" + path;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isOptional()
    {
        return false;
    }
}

I get an exception as follows:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: com.example.MyUrlCustomPropertyFileConfig points to an invalid file: 'file:/D:\Dev\GIT\example-test/src/test/resources/myurlconfig.properties'
	at org.apache.deltaspike.core.impl.config.ConfigurationExtension.createPropertyConfigSource(ConfigurationExtension.java:210)
	at org.apache.deltaspike.core.impl.config.ConfigurationExtension.registerUserConfigSources(ConfigurationExtension.java:135)
	at org.apache.deltaspike.core.impl.config.ConfigurationExtension$Proxy$_$$_WeldClientProxy.registerUserConfigSources(ConfigurationExtension$Proxy$_$$_WeldClientProxy.java)

By looking into the test code in DeltaSpike I do not see any usage of the URL mechanism as a property configuration source. This should be improved.

There should be a way to integrate easily configuration sources expressed as URLs. As user, I would like that the way to integrate URL paths as configuration sources is also documented (including those starting with file:/).