[higgins-dev] Configuration Issue

["Daniel Sanders" <dsanders@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg or Mike,

 

I'm trying to use the ConfigurationHandler in configuration.xml to read in settings from a configuration file I have created.

 

However, it turns out that if you have already used the configuration handler for something else (like reading Configuration.xml for the STS), it will not read in a new file, but keeps the settings from the first file it read.

 

This is because all of the mapGlobalSettings, bConfiguring, and bConfigured private members are all static - which means they will be shared by all instances of this class.  So the first time bConfigured gets set to true, you cannot use ANY instance of the ConfigurationHandler class to read in other configuration files - or to reread your original configuration file.

 

This is sort of how a singleton might behave - you only want to configure once, from one file, ever - but that strikes me as a very strange behavior.  Did we intend this behavior?  If so, that really limits its usefulness in allowing me to read in different configuration files at different times.  If not, the solution is easy - just don't make any of those member variables private.

 

Please advise - I need to know what to do fairly quickly.  If we keep the variables static, I will have to use some other technology - or roll my own - to do configuration - something I really would prefer to avoid doing.

 

Thanks,

 

Daniel