Re: [Pki-devel] CLI for editing profiles

>> SimpleProperties and PropConfigStore currently live in >> com.netscape.cmscore.base. Is there any objection to moving them to >> com.netscape.certsrv.base so that they are available to the CLI >> code? >> >> This item is the last of the review items (including Endi's >> subsequent review) blocking the next cut of the patchset. > > Do those classes have dependencies on other server-side classes? I was > thinking to simply use java.util.Properties. Or maybe just a String then the > ProfileClient parses it into a Properties. > Aha, I was not aware of java.util.Properties. My immediate use case doesn't require use of the sub-configs, so Properties would suffice. Due to the heirarchical nature of profile config I suspect we might *eventually* want PropConfigStore, but YAGNI for now, I guess. In regards to moving SimpleProperties and PropConfigStore, there is one other class - SourceConfigStore - that would have to have been moved. AFAICT there are no other dependencies. On the subject of SimpleProperties: how does our SimpleProperties class differ from java.util.Properties? A cursory examination reveals only two differences: SimpleProperties' hashCode() and equals() methods take the `defaults' into account, whereas Properties inherits this methods from java.util.HashTable. The only place SimpleProperties is used is in SourceConfigStore (which extends it), and the only place SourceConfigStore is used is in PropConfigStore (protected SourceConfigStore mSource). Neither PropConfigStore nor its subclasses invoke mSource.equals() or .hashCode() so it seems - from this brief examination and without the knowledge of history - that we could possibly get rid of SimpleProperties? If there is an important reason why SimpleProperties exists, I look forward to learning about it :)