[TAMAYA-30] Introduce Codecs Feature

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Fix Version/s: 0.1-incubating
• Component/s: API
• Assignee: Anatole Tresch
• Reporter: Anatole Tresch
• Created: 18/Dec/14 22:08
• Updated: 20/Dec/14 14:35
• Resolved: 20/Dec/14 14:35

Description

Change PropertyAdapter to be bidirectional and rename it to Codec to specially encode properties. These codecs can be used by mutable configurations to encode changes in a flexible way and for adapt encoded values. This is very useful, when adding support for complex, multivalued and additional non-String types, that should be changeable as well. The changes required are:

• Rename PropertyAdapter to Codec
• Rename PropertyAdapters to Codecs
• Add additional method to Codec to enable bidirectionality
• Ensure write support for object types in ConfigChangeSet and corresponding builder.
• Ensure/adapt Javadoc
• Discuss default codesc for collections, multi values (combined) and more
• Rename @WithPropertyAdapter to {@WithCodec}

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