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Oliver Heger commented on CONFIGURATION-354:
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The handling of list delimiters is always a source of problems and confusion.
However, in this case it really works as designed. The problem is that you call
{{setListDelimiter()}} *after* loading the configuration. Citing the Javadocs
of {{setListDelimiter()}}:
??Change the list delimiter for this configuration. Note: this change will only
be effective for new parsings. If you want it to take effect for all loaded
properties use the no arg constructor and call this method before setting the
source.??
In your case this means you have to specify the list delimiter before the
configuration is actually loaded by the configuration factory. This can be done
in {{config.xml}} by specifying an additional attribute for the {{<xml>}}
element:
{code}
<xml fileName="application.xml" listDelimiter=";"/>
{code}
(Note: I have not tried this out for {{ConfigurationFactory}}, but it will work
using {{DefaultConfigurationBuilder}}. It is recommended to use the latter
class; its API is almost identical to {{ConfigurationFactory}}, but it provides
many more features.)
You first experiment works because with "," you are using the default list
delimiter. So the call to {{setListDelimiter()}} does not change anything.
> XML configuration handles non-default list delimiter bad way
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CONFIGURATION-354
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-354
> Project: Commons Configuration
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.5
> Environment: Windows XP Home edition, Java 1.6.0_07
> Reporter: Peter Verhas
> Priority: Minor
>
> When setting the list separator character the XML configuration engine does
> not handle the lists properly. Sample code:
> Junit test code:
> {code}
> public void testConfig() {
> CompositeConfiguration conf = null;
> try {
> conf = (CompositeConfiguration) new
> ConfigurationFactory("config.xml").getConfiguration();
> } catch (ConfigurationException ex) {
> Logger.getLogger(TestConfig.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE,
> null, ex);
> return;
> }
> PrintStream o = System.out;
> conf.setListDelimiter(conf.getString("list.delimiter").charAt(0));
> o.println("c=" + conf.getString("c"));
> o.println("x="+conf.getString("key.subkey(1)"));
> o.print(System.getProperty("java.version"));
> }
> {code}
> The config.xml contains
> {code}
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <configuration>
> <xml fileName="application.xml"/>
> </configuration>
> {code}
> and finally the application.xml is
> {code}
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1250"?>
> <konfig>
> <list><delimiter>\,</delimiter></list>
> <key>
> <subkey>one,two,three</subkey>
> <subkey >four</subkey>
> </key>
> <c>${key.subkey(1)}</c>
> </konfig>
> {code}
> The resulting output is:
> {code}
> c=two
> x=two
> 1.6.0_07
> {code}
> This is correct so far. This is the case when I comment out the
> {{setListDelimiter}} code line. After this I change the application.xml to
> {code}
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1250"?>
> <konfig>
> <list><delimiter>;</delimiter></list>
> <key>
> <subkey>one;two;three</subkey>
> <subkey >four</subkey>
> </key>
> <c>${key.subkey(1)}</c>
> </konfig>
> {code}
> even though I expect the same result what I got was:
> {code}
> c=four
> x=four
> 1.6.0_07
> {code}
> Do I miss some point or {{setListDelimiter}} does not work for XML files?
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