[Yanel-dev] Resource configuration parameters: Differentiating between Development, Testing, Staging and Production

[Michael Wechner]

Hi Balz

Am 13.10.11 17:31, schrieb basZero:
> sounds great, but I would not reinvent the wheel.
> checkout Maven Profiles, they do exactly this.
>
> if I remember correctly, Maven Profiles existed as separate files in 
> version 2.x, from 3.x they have been integrated into Maven's 
> settings.xsml:
>
> http://maven.apache.org/settings.html#Profiles
>
> http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html

Thanks very much for these links, but it's not really about the build 
process, but rather about resource configurations of realms, which have 
nothing to do with the build process.

I will do an experimental implementation in a separate git branch and 
try to make it available for testing shortly.

Thanks

Michael


>
> Cheers
> Balz
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Michael Wechner 
> <michael.wechner at wyona.com <mailto:michael.wechner at wyona.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     Based on some other work it occured to me that it would be nice if
>     one could easily differentiate configuration parameters for
>     various scenarios/environments, e.g. Development, Testing, Staging
>     and Production.
>
>     The Yanel configuration itself already provides "local"
>     configuration files, but in the case of resource configurations
>     this is not the case, e.g.
>
>     src/realms/yanel-website/res-configs-repo/data/en/contact.html.yanel-rc
>
>     and in particular a parameter like
>
>     <yanel:property name="to" value="contact at wyona.com
>     <mailto:contact at wyona.com>"/>
>
>     needs to be changed for development or testing. At the moment one
>     has to keep editing these files
>     with the risk to use a value actually intended for another
>     scenario/environment and hence creating errors.
>
>     I think we could solve this problem in a very elegant way by
>     introducing an attribute, e.g.
>
>     <yanel:property name="to" value="contact at wyona.com
>     <mailto:contact at wyona.com>" env="production"/>
>     <yanel:property name="to" value="michael.wechner at wyona.com
>     <mailto:michael.wechner at wyona.com>" env="development"/>
>
>     whereas inside
>
>     WEB-INF/classes/yanel.xml
>
>     the scenario/environment could be set globally, e.g. production or
>     development or whatever and based on
>     that the right value selected.
>
>     WDYT?
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Michael
>
>
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