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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16684 Document case sensitivity of glob mapper ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-05-04 23:31 ------- This BTW is a good argument for allowing multiple mappers. It is also an argument for allow "attributes" to be passed to specific implementations. The simplest way that I see to make these ideas usable everywhere that mappers are allowed 1. For multiple mappers: introduce a mapper element without any attributes to act as a container: <mapper> <mapper type="glob" from="*.ini" to="*.ini.bak"/> <mapper type="glob" from="*.INI" to "*.INI.bak"/> </mapper> Semantics could be either a. cummulative: mappers are applied in the given sequence; if all return null, the mapper container returns null; otherwise a mapper later in the sequence is applied to the result of earlier mappers, except ones returning null or empty array are skipped; b. exclusive: mappers are applied in undefined sequence, the result of the first to return non-null is used (in other words, if the mappers are not disjoint the result is undefined). 2. For mapper specific attributes: introduce a new attribute to the mapper element called props. The value is a sequence of name='value' items separated by comma, e.g., props="casesensitive='no',prefix='hello'". Introduce a subinterface of FileNameMapper, FileNameMapperWithProperties (unless you want to call it FileNameMapper2 in the MS tradition B-{) ). It has a single new method void setProperties(Properties props) This method is caledd called on mappers implementing the new interface with the value of the props attribute translated into a Properties instance. Then with a suitably updated glob mapper we could have: <mapper type="glob" from="*.ini" to="*.ini.bak" props="casesensitive='no'"/>
