Re: [CONFIGURATION] INIConfiguration with empty section key not supported

Hello Thomas,

You might want to look at the unit tests to see if there are any
expectations regarding empty section names. I don't know off the top of my
head.

Gary

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 11:41 AM Steiner Thomas
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> should it possible to parse an ini-File with an empty section key with
> commons-configuration2 2.10.1?
>
> Or is there any intended purpose why the following example doesn't work:
>     INIConfiguration iniConfiguration = new INIConfiguration();
>     try (FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(file)) {
>       iniConfiguration.read(fileReader);
>     } catch (ConfigurationException | IOException e) {
>       e.printStackTrace();
>     }
>     SubnodeConfiguration subSection = iniConfiguration.getSection("");
>     String nextKey = subSection.getKeys().next();
>     assertNotNull(nextKey);
>     assertEquals("property", nextKey);
>     Object nextValue = subSection.getProperty(nextKey);
>     assertNotNull(nextValue); // FIXME: value is null
>     assertEquals("property1", nextValue);
>
> emptySection.ini:
>   []
>   property = "property1"
>
> The value is null due to the keyBuffer's length in the
> DefaultConfigurationKey is 0 and the endIndex is also 0 so the
> KeyIterator's hasNext() is false.
>
> Sections with a space (' ') are parsed as expected:
>     INIConfiguration iniConfiguration = new INIConfiguration();
>     try (FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(file)) {
>       iniConfiguration.read(fileReader);
>     } catch (ConfigurationException | IOException e) {
>       e.printStackTrace();
>     }
>     SubnodeConfiguration subSection = iniConfiguration.getSection(" ");
>     String nextKey = subSection.getKeys().next();
>     assertNotNull(nextKey);
>     assertEquals("property", nextKey);
>     Object nextValue = subSection.getProperty(nextKey);
>     assertNotNull(nextValue);
>     assertEquals("property1", nextValue);
>
> spaceSection.ini:
>   [ ]
>   property = "property1"
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas Steiner
>
>
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