Oliver Heger created CONFIGURATION-551:
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Summary: Make data type conversions extensible
Key: CONFIGURATION-551
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-551
Project: Commons Configuration
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Type conversion
Affects Versions: 1.9
Reporter: Oliver Heger
Fix For: 2.0
So far, a fix set of data type conversions is supported. Some are available
directly in the {{Configuration}} interface (especially for primitive and
standard Java types), others are provided by {{DataConfiguration}}. Currently,
it is not easy possible for client applications to customize type conversions
or add new converters.
I am not sure whether we should go so far to implement yet another framework
with type converters; at least not directly for version 2.0. However, there
should be at least possibilities to hook into the conversion mechanism.
Ideally, I would like to have a simple facade handling the different kinds of
conversions. By providing alternative implementations, client applications
should be able to adapt type conversions or even plug in a different conversion
framework, e.g. Commons Beanutils.
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