[Mono-dev] [PATCH] System.Configuration.Provider.ProviderBase.cs

[Atsushi Eno]

Hi Gert,

Thanks for the checkin.

Atsushi Eno

Gert Driesen wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
>  
> This is now "fixed" in SVN (with matching unit tests).
>  
> Gert
> *From:* mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com 
> [mailto:mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] *On Behalf Of *John 
> Anderson
> *Sent:* vrijdag 31 augustus 2007 10:19
> *To:* Atsushi Eno
> *Cc:* mono-devel
> *Subject:* Re: [Mono-dev] [PATCH] 
> System.Configuration.Provider.ProviderBase.cs
> 
> On 8/31/07, *Atsushi Eno* <atsushi at ximian.com 
> <mailto:atsushi at ximian.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Your code does not verify that your change must be correct. It
>     just shows the fact that it *affects* on our ASP.NET
>     <http://ASP.NET> behavior
>     (Or is that a general way for .NET developers to identify the
>     source of bugs?).  What I expected was rather like below:
> 
>     using System;
>     using System.Collections.Specialized;
>     using System.Configuration.Provider;
> 
>     public class MyProvider : ProviderBase
>     {
>          public static void Main ()
>          {
>              NameValueCollection config = new NameValueCollection ();
>              config ["name"] = "Name";
>              config ["description"] = "DESC";
>              config ["foo"] = "FOO";
>              Console.WriteLine (config ["description"]);
>              MyProvider p = new MyProvider ();
>              p.Initialize ("Foo", config);
>              Console.WriteLine (config ["name"]);
>              Console.WriteLine (config ["description"]);
>              Console.WriteLine (config ["foo"]);
>              Console.WriteLine ("{0} {1}", p.Name, p.Description);
>          }
>     }
> 
>     Yes, you were right, this test shows how funny behavior .net does.
> 
> 
> Sorry about my test, Yours is much better.  But as you can see with your 
> test, on MS.NET <http://MS.NET>
> it removes the description config.  This is a pretty well known behavior 
> of the provider, I've seen
> many code examples of custom providers where they check config after 
> running base initialize to check
> if any unknown attributes were defined in the config.
> 
> Thanks