Emmanuel Bourg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
>> An idea that popped up was the "versioning locator" mentioned in the
>> reply to Oliver.
>This sounds a bit unrealistic for a simple configuration file. But it
>may make sense in a commons-locator project.
I was thinking more of a custom locator implementation. Not something to be
put into the commons realm.
>> The filename might not be part of the strategy but it is vital to
>> locating the ressource. :-) Does it make sense to have a strategy
>> without a filename / a filename without a strategy (other than
>> defaults)? If no, then we will have to pull a pair of "resource name"
>> / "Locator object") around anyway.
>I prefer this rather than merging too many concepts into the same
>object. This is required only if you have to carry the locator
>(strategy) all along, but in my opinion once the file is located (URL
>found) there is no need to keep the locator.
Ok. I see your point.
[...]
>I think the notion of "locating a resource" is really specific to the
>file based configurations, that's why I'm a bit reluctant to try a
>generalization of the "Locator as a generic definition" concept right now.
Ok, so we should make clear, that Locator is intended as "file name ->
URL" translation class. However, for me, the file name is still a
parameter of the Locator, not of the configuration.
If we change this, then we should short-cut
PropertiesConfiguration(String fileName)
and
PropertiesConfiguration(File file)
with
public PropertiesConfiguration(String fileName) {
this(FileLocator.locate(fileName));
}
public PropertiesConfiguration(File file) {
this(FileLocator.locate(file.getName()));
}
and deprecate these C'tors, shouldn't we?
Regards
Henning
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