[Pki-devel] CLI for editing profiles

[Endi Sukma Dewata]

On 9/3/2014 6:57 PM, Fraser Tweedale wrote:
>> I don't know the history either, but the SimpleProperties allows you to
>> specify the default values of some properties so what you get is the
>> effective values. This might be useful for the server because the server
>> works using the effective property values, but I'm not sure if the current
>> code is actually using it. On the client side we should be dealing with the
>> configured properties only.
>>
>> There are probably some other differences such as adding a header on the top
>> of the file and the property value encoding. I don't think we need it on the
>> client side though. Also note that some of these codes are quite old, and
>> newer/better utility classes might have been added into the standard/common
>> Java libraries since then, so in some cases it might be better to replace it
>> if possible. Usually the hard part is testing it to make sure we're not
>> breaking the existing functionality.
>>
>
> `Properties' has both default values and header comments, FWIW.
> Anyhow I'll leave the refactor for now and file a ticket, and
> proceed with Properties for the client-side.

You're right, I didn't see that. Yeah, we'll leave that for now until we 
have time to look at it in more details.

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Endi S. Dewata