Re: [Boost-users] Questions about using program_options

From: Frank Birbacher (bloodymir.crap_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-24 05:45:34

Hi!

Rupert Bruce schrieb:
> So anywhere in my code I can do, for example:
>     if (PropertyCatalog::getBooleanProperty("testapp.profile",false))
>         {
>         profile.append(currentStatus);
>         }

Which has a design flaw, I think. I just got rid of a lot of such 
function calls in a project I'm working at. The flaw: do not keep 
configuration default values distributed in the code. What if the 
default value needs to change? It does commonly change for directory 
paths. If you now tell me to always write the correct value into the 
config file, then I wouldn't need any default value at all and I could 
just remove them. And if you need different default values for the same 
key in different places, then you simply need also different keys.

I now have "getConfig" calls without defaults in the call.

Frank