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# 0.NEXT.0: Sometime
- supports self-referential substitutions, such as
`path=${path}":/bin"`, by "looking backward" to the previous
value of `path`
- supports concatenating arrays and merging objects within a
single value. So you can do `path=${path} [ "/bin" ]` for
example. See README and spec for more details.
- supports `+=` where `path+="/bin"` expands to `path=${?path}
[ "/bin" ]`
- supports `include url("http://example.com/")`, `include
file("/my/file.conf")`, and `include classpath("whatever")`.
This syntax forces treatment as URL, file, or classpath
resource.
- supports `include "http://example.com/whatever.conf"` (if an
include is a valid URL, it's loaded as such). This is
incompatible with prior versions, if you have a filename that
is also a valid URL, it would have loaded previously but now
it will not. Use the `include file("")` syntax to force
treatment as a file.
- class loaders are now recursively inherited through include
statements; previously, even if you set a custom class loader
when parsing a file, it would not be used for parsing a
classpath resource included from the file.
- parseString() and parseReader() now support include statements
in the parsed string or reader
- in -Dconfig.resource=name, name can start with a "/" or not,
doesn't matter
- if you implement ConfigIncluder, you should most likely also
implement ConfigIncluderFile, ConfigIncluderURL, and
ConfigIncluderClasspath. You should also use
ConfigIncludeContext.parseOptions() if appropriate.
- cycles in include statements (self-includes) are now detected
and result in a nicer error instead of stack overflow
- the serialization format has changed for a Config that has not
had resolve() called on it. The library can still deserialize
the old format, but old versions of the library will not be
able to deserialize the new format. Serializing unresolved
Config is probably a bad idea anyway and maybe shouldn't even
be supported, but keeping it for back compat.
- since 0.3.0, there is an obscure incompatible semantic change
in that self-referential substitutions where the cycle could
be broken by partially resolving the object now "look backward"
and may fail to resolve. This is not incompatible with the
version included in Play/Akka 2.0 because in that version this
obscure case just threw an exception. But in 0.3.0 there
were cases that worked that now work differently. You are very
unlikely to be affected by this.
# 0.3.0: March 1, 2012
- ConfigFactory methods now use the thread's context class loader
by default, and have overloads so you can specify a class
loader. Because jars may come with "reference.conf" in the jar,
a config must always be loaded with the same class loader as
the jar using the config.
- ConfigValue instances are now serializable
- new methods ConfigObject.withoutKey, ConfigObject.withOnlyKey,
Config.withoutPath, Config.withOnlyPath allow subsetting
configs more easily.
- better handle complex interdependent substitutions (the
`${foo}` syntax) without getting confused; just about anything
that makes conceptual sense should now work. Only inherently
circular config files should fail.
- some minor documentation fixes.