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Oliver Heger commented on CONFIGURATION-535:
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Exposing the parameters through get methods should not be a problem, this is of
course possible.
The {{close()}} method would be needed mainly for convenience purposes, I
assume? We could make it *protected*, but I also experimented with an approach
similar to Spring's JDBCTemplate. Here each database access is wrapped by an
interface, and resources are freed automatically. If such an approach is taken,
I am not sure whether the {{close()}} method is still needed in this form.
Therefore I am a bit reluctant to add it to the public API of this class.
> Add getters for the initial parameters of DatabaseConfiguration
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>
> Key: CONFIGURATION-535
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-535
> Project: Commons Configuration
> Issue Type: Wish
> Reporter: Yanlin Ye
> Priority: Trivial
> Labels: features
>
> We use database configuration to support a centralized location for
> configuration properties common to some distributed components of our
> application, and it works great. In order for our application components to
> report issues (especially when we have database connection issues), we
> extended database configuration to maintain a backup cache for all properties
> and update the cache whenever a property is accessed. This way, the cached
> properties can be used if the properties cannot be loaded from the database.
> The extension works as expected and can report issues even if the database
> connection becomes not available.
> The only (minor) thing is that, when we extended DatabaseConfiguration, we
> had to maintain another copy of the initial parameters such as table name,
> name/key/value columns, etc, because DatabaseConfiguration does not provide
> access to them. I was wondering whether or not the following can be added to
> DatabaseConfiguration to make it easier to be extended.
> - Add getters for initialization parameters, and
> - Change private void close(Connection, Statement) to protected for reuse.
> Please ignore if you don't think the suggested changes can be useful to users.
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