+1 on both the xstream upgrade and the metadata map. Would this be
backported? Or would the addition of the metadata map itself be considered
a configuration that we dont allow on the stable branch?
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Christian Mueller <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Big +1 for updating to Xsteam 1.4.5.
>
> Cheers
> Christian
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Andrea Aime
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Mauro Bartolomeoli <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>> after some discussion with Christian and Andrea about current security
>>> modules configuration limits in the ability to backport them, I was
>>> thinking if we could try to introduce some flexibility to allow backporting
>>> in simple cases.
>>> Talking with Andrea we found that 1.4.5 version of XStream allows
>>> ignoring unknown attributes (so that the unmarshalling doesn't break
>>> loading a newer configuration with unrecognized properties): you can find
>>> some reference here: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/XSTR-691.
>>> Moreover, we could introduce a metadata map, similar to the one used in
>>> Catalog objects, to be used in backported versions.
>>>
>>> So, what we could do is:
>>> - upgrade XStream to 1.4.5 (from the current 1.4.3) and enable the
>>> unrecognized attributes ignore flag
>>> - introduce the metadata map in security configurations
>>>
>>> Any opinions on this?
>>>
>>
>> If we upgrade XStream, I guess we would have a lesser need for the
>> metadata map.
>> I believe it would still be handy for out of core code, that might use
>> the metadata map to carry information
>> with special significance to them, without having to alter the core data
>> model, but probably less urgent
>> to implement
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>>
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