Hi JSecurity Community,
I'd like to get your thoughts on something.
Currently, JSecurity's only text-based configuration option (in web.xml or
jsecurity.ini) is the INI file format.
This format works well enough and seems clean, but it doesn't particularly
handle object graph definitions all that well. But JSecurity configuration
is essentially just that - an object graph of the JSecurity SecurityManager
and all of its dependencies (realms, etc).
JSON might be a better format for object graph definitions, and might be
more succinct than even INI. Would it be worth having this as the preferred
configuration syntax instead?
Consider the following definitions:
INI:
bar = some.domain.package.Bar
bar.name = ABar
bar.amount = 50.00
foo = some.domain.package.Foo
foo.something = Some value
foo.bar = $bar
foo.anotherThing = 52
JSON:
foo: some.domain.package.Foo {
something: Some value,
bar: some.domain.package.Bar {
name: ABar,
amount: 50.00
},
anotherThing: 52
}
What do you think? Which one would you prefer?
--
Les
