I have added new hierarchical configuration implementations based on the
node handler approach.
There is now a new AbstractHierarchicalConfiguration<T> class providing
basic functionality for dealing with hierarchical structures.
Derived from that is InMemoryConfiguration, which is almost equivalent
to HierarchicalConfiguration. The new SubConfiguration class is the
counterpart to SubnodeConfiguration.
I copied the tests from the HierarchicalConfiguration, and they run
successful for the new configuration class. There are minor differences
in the handling of attributes: I decided not to allow multiple values
for an attribute as was possible for HierarchicalConfiguration as part
of the list handling functionality. IMO this was rather confusing than
helpful. Obviously these differences are not covered by the unit tests.
Next steps are further configuration implementations based on the new
classes. I will do some experiments with XMLConfiguration and a new
preferences configuration class.
We can decide how to deal with the old classes. We could completely
replace them with the new ones or deprecate them only.
Oliver
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