Oliver Heger created CONFIGURATION-553:
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Summary: Support custom search strategies for configuration files
Key: CONFIGURATION-553
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-553
Project: Commons Configuration
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 1.9
Reporter: Oliver Heger
Fix For: 2.0
Via the {{FileSystem}} class it is already possible to influence locating and
loading of configuration files. However, the API is quite complex, and it is
not obvious which methods to override.
It would be easier to have a specialized interface for a locator strategy. This
would make the implementation of custom search strategies straight-forward. A
default implementation of this interface can be provided which implements the
currently used search algorithm (which is currently hard-coded in
{{ConfigurationUtils}}).
In general, there is room for improvements in the file system implementations.
For instance, functionality seems to be partly implemented in
{{ConfigurationUtils}} and partly in {{DefaultFileSystem}}. I would like to
remove the code related to the localization of configuration files from
{{ConfigurationUtils}} and create a specialized utility class in the {{io}}
package.
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