Caching

[adprocas]

Hello,

I was wondering if you could explain caching for your extension. On your home page you mention caching, but what exactly is cached, and how is it cached? Is the cache supposed to persist and be used when and if a source is not available? For example, if github is down, does the library cache properties and use the most recently obtained properties?

I took a quick look at the source code, but other than having properties as a member variable in the ConfigurationSource, I don't see where caching is available. I'm kind of looking at the git implementation for this. I have extended this to work with another key-value pair system, but fail to see where caching is happening.

I will be implementing my own caching if there isn't support for caching within this extension, but I wanted to check here first.

[adprocas]

After looking through the code on here I see CachedConfigurationSource. I do not have that in my library. I'm using Ivy and have cfg4j-core-4.4.0.jar, but no CachedConfigurationSource.

Any ideas?

[fabriziocucci]

@adprocas it seems that that class is not in the released version but only on the master.

[adprocas]

Ah, thanks @fabriziocucci. I wonder why it isn't in the released version.

[fabriziocucci]

@adprocas I guess the maintainer is quite busy lately! If you really need something that has not been released yet you may need to fork the project and release it yourself on your artifact repository...

I personally have created a spin-off project inspired by this one with a slightly more fluent API and a couple of feature I needed (but not even close in terms of completeness to this one).