I like the HOCON format for duration values: https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/master/HOCON.md#duration-format
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 14:53, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 1:50 PM Ralph Goers <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I have no problem with this but would think it would be something we > would > > want to do in 3.0 and not 2.x. Rather than to keep introducing features > to > > 2.x I’d like to concentrate a bit on figuring out what things really need > > to be changed for a 3.0 release and adding new significant features > there. > > > > That's fine with me. > > Gary > > > > Ralph > > > > > On Nov 5, 2018, at 11:54 AM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi All: > > > > > > Today in appenders like the JMS Appender you can specify time values > like > > > the setting reconnectIntervalMillis="5000"; same idea with the > mysterious > > > Configuration monitorInterval which is specified in seconds (how would > > you > > > know that without digging in the docs? ;-) > > > > > > What I'd like to see instead is the ability to say reconnectInterval="5 > > > SECONDS" and monitorInterval="2 MINUTES". Note the unscaled attribute > > name. > > > > > > The scale word is a java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit enum name (with, say, > > an > > > optional "S" at the end). I'm not thinking about localization ATM, just > > use > > > the TimeUnit enum names. > > > > > > Over in Apache HttpComponents HttpCore, I created the very handy > > TimeValue > > > class for this purpose which holds a value and a TimeUnit: > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-core/blob/master/httpcore5/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/core5/util/TimeValue.java > > > > > > Then instead of passing around opaque longs and ints around the code, > you > > > pass arounds TimeValues. > > > > > > In either 2.x or 3.x, I'd like to copy this class and use it. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > PS: In HttpCore, TimeValue also has a subclass Timeout. > > > > > > > -- Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
