Feature: Settings

[oxplay2]

As discussed, we need to desgin a way to pass Monkey-Netty Settings.

There are multiple ways like:

• Use JME AppSettings
  Disadvantage with this solution is that someone would not know that he can configure it there, unless he will read Monkey-Netty wiki.

• use Java Properties
  Its String->String, instead String->Object so IMO bad solution for this one.

• use own HashMap Settings class utility
  Disadvantage that we need additional class instead of using ready2use solutions.

Im not sure what would be your decision, but for me options 1 and 3 are fine.
If you have more options for Settings, please tell

[tlf30]

We could use apache configurations 2, I have used it on other projects and it works good. We could have a network.properties file.

[oxplay2]

as a global settings, sounds good.

But what about "per Server/Client" settings?

For example some Client might want have high timeout value, while other low value.
Same about servers, since each might want different settings.

Do apache configurations 2 will allow this for Monkey-Netty?

[tlf30]

Hmm, apache configuration 2 would be fine for global settings, but not on a per server/client basis.

[tlf30]

@oxplay2 I have created an initial implementation for settings.
I am still playing with it. I will probably make it a hashmap wrapper before I am done, but right now I am playing with how the architecture needs to change to accommodate this.

See #35 for my initial implementation. It does have some large changes to the architecture, which I have been wanting to do for some times anyways. But to implement these changes they were required. I will probably cut a v1.0.0 release for this, along with a couple other features I want to implement that will be breaking changes.

EDIT: The other big feature I want in v1.0.0 is #15. And I think this changes will make that easier to implement.

[oxplay2]

thanks for notification :)

sounds good, no rush, this should be done very well, so take time to make it clever way. Settings can wait until you finish other things too.