[FELIX-4844] Store configuration data in a diff-tool friendly way

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Pending Closed
• Fix Version/s: configadmin-1.8.6
• Component/s: Configuration Admin
• Assignee: Carsten Ziegeler
• Reporter: Balazs Zsoldos
• Created: 06/Apr/15 13:44
• Updated: 30/Jul/15 09:33
• Resolved: 12/May/15 06:14

Description

We store our configuration with the sources in the source-code control system (git). It often happens that multiple developers work on the same project and they modify the configuration parallel. It would not be a problem if the config files were diff-tool friendly. To achieve this goal, two improvements would be necessary:

Store entries in alphabetically ordered list

In the config files, the entries should be stored sorted by ABC. It is easy to implement by overriding HashTable in the same way that LinkedHashMap overrides HashMap.

Store array values in multiple lines

At the moment a setting with two values are stored like this:

key=["value1", "value2"]

Instead of this, I would store it in the following format (each entry on new line):

key=[ \
"value1", \
"value2" \
]

Question

Do you think that if I prepare a patch for this, that would be accepted?

Issue Links

• is related to: SLING-4793 Support new format from Apache Felix config admin
• is related to: SLING-4799 ConfigAdmin format for multi values has changed, clarify the impact