Hi, While Lewis and I were discussing over NUTCH-1205, we identified the Properties object as the major source of trouble/confusion when configuring datastores. First and foremost, it's makes no sense that we have 2 ways to configure a store, namely via Configuration and Properties. Besides this there seems to be some trouble with the serialization and initialization of the stores. (Sometimes runtime Properties settings are not correctly used). We have a few ways to solve this problem:
-Stop supporting the adding of dynamic properties (runtime settings) and only support the static gora.properties file. People wanting to use runtime props shall use Configuration somehow. -Completely remove the Properties object from Gora altogether. Migrate existing properties to Configuration. -Trying to make both Properties and Configuration work (that's what the current direction seems to be). Difficult it seems. -Something else? I think the second option is best. The advantage of Configuration is that it inheritently works with mapreduce because it is automatically (de)serialized and available in the mappers and reducers. What do you think? Ferdy.
