We support ordering of components. I understand Prasana's issue, to ideally solve his issue, supporting configuration inheritance seems to be the best for him
Kelven On 5/7/13 1:11 PM, "Alex Huang" <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: >Kelven, > >Do we support ordering of the components like components.xml did before? >Then you don't need to override but just insert before. > >--Alex > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: prasanna [mailto:srivatsav.prasa...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of >> Prasanna Santhanam >> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:56 PM >> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >> Subject: Re: inheritable componentContexts >> >> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:43:47AM -0700, Kelven Yang wrote: >> > >> > >> > On 4/16/13 1:15 AM, "Prasanna Santhanam" <t...@apache.org> wrote: >> > >> > >This is probably a question for the Spring community but I'll ask >> > >here anyway. Every so often when the componentContext.xml.in >> changes >> > >I find that I have to fix up simulatorComponentContext.xml.in >> > >similarly to make the beans load appropriately and for the bvt tests >>to >> work. >> > > >> > >Is there a way similar to the components-premium.xml we had before to >> > >'inherit' Spring contexts so it's easier to maintain the xmls? >> > > >> > >-- >> > >Prasanna., >> > >> > Unfortunately, Spring does not provide an out-of-box solution to >> > inherit between XML configuration files currently, however it provides >> > the feature to merge several independent context files together. >> > >> > What you may do is to have your simulator components in a separated >> > context XML file and have Spring merge it along with other common >> > context files (like we did for applicationContext.xml + >> componentContext.xml). >> > >> >> Thanks Kelven, I explored the merging of contexts and it might be >>unsuitable >> for my case since I have to override some beans of the >>applicationContext >> that are required for the simulator. Specifically the >> SecondaryStorageDiscoverer needs to be overridden by the >> SimulatorSecondaryStorageDiscoverer. >> >> -- >> Prasanna.,
