Re: [configuration] Any way to tell with CompositeConfiguration which child Config object a value is derived?

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Bessie
Thanks much, Ralph! - Tim On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:57 AM, ralph.goers @dslextreme.com < ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > You should take a look at > http://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.htmlwhich references > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/contributing.html. The first link has link

Re: [configuration] Any way to tell with CompositeConfiguration which child Config object a value is derived?

2011-11-17 Thread ralph.goers @dslextreme.com
You should take a look at http://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.htmlwhich references http://jakarta.apache.org/site/contributing.html. The first link has links to all the various information you will want to read. The second link provides a fairly good description of how people become commit

Re: [configuration] Any way to tell with CompositeConfiguration which child Config object a value is derived?

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Bessie
I'd be happy to write it myself - how does one become a committer in this project? - Tim On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Oliver Heger wrote: > Am 17.11.2011 00:34, schrieb Tim Bessie: > > Thanks Oliver - unfortunately, that is not quite the same issue I'm >> talking >> about. >> Mostly, this i

Re: [configuration] Any way to tell with CompositeConfiguration which child Config object a value is derived?

2011-11-17 Thread Oliver Heger
Am 17.11.2011 00:34, schrieb Tim Bessie: Thanks Oliver - unfortunately, that is not quite the same issue I'm talking about. Mostly, this is because I want to use CompositeConfiguration; I don't require structure in my configurations and don't want to have to deal with the concepts CombinedConfigu

Re: [configuration] Any way to tell with CompositeConfiguration which child Config object a value is derived?

2011-11-16 Thread Tim Bessie
Thanks Oliver - unfortunately, that is not quite the same issue I'm talking about. Mostly, this is because I want to use CompositeConfiguration; I don't require structure in my configurations and don't want to have to deal with the concepts CombinedConfiguration uses (nodes, views, etc.). Just a s

Re: [configuration] Any way to tell with CompositeConfiguration which child Config object a value is derived?

2011-11-16 Thread Oliver Heger
Am 16.11.2011 22:24, schrieb Tim Bessie: I have been trying to use commons-configuration, especially the CompositeConfiguration object (and have looked into CombinedConfiguration), and I have a need to be able to ask "Which child configuration object did a given key's value derive from?" I had

[configuration] Any way to tell with CompositeConfiguration which child Config object a value is derived?

2011-11-16 Thread Tim Bessie
I have been trying to use commons-configuration, especially the CompositeConfiguration object (and have looked into CombinedConfiguration), and I have a need to be able to ask "Which child configuration object did a given key's value derive from?" I had thought that CompositeConfiguration.getSour