Passthrough configuration methods should probably be reflection-based
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Key: KI-81
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KI-81
Project: Ki
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Configuration
Affects Versions: 0.9-RC1, 0.9
Reporter: Les Hazlewood
Fix For: 1.0
We currently have a lot of methods to support passthrough configuration to
wrapped/delegate objects.
Most of the time, those passthrough methods are very specific to the underlying
wrapped implementation - we do a few 'instanceof' checks to see if the
underlying implementation is one of our default implementations or interfaces,
and if so, cast the object and then make the call.
Instead, it might be nicer to just use reflection (or PropertyUtils) to take
the delegate object and reflectively call a setter method, without checking for
type first. If the method call fails we could throw a nice message about an
unexpected type.
This would allow us to get rid of a lot of 'fluff' interfaces that might exist
solely for passthrough configuration, which only add to bloat and often
confusion to those perusing the APIs.
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