There is a field "Extra properties" in the properties of repositories. We think this looks like a good place to put custom settings local to a repo. Has anyone used it and what would be a good way?

This is the code we have at the moment (it's quite new, so please excuse any ugliness):
public String getExtraPropertyValue(Integer repositoryId, String propertyName) throws UnsupportedEncodingException, IOException { Map args = new HashMap(); args.put("globalKey", "infoglue"); PropertySet ps = PropertySetManager.getInstance("jdbc", args); byte[] extraPropertiesBytes = ps.getData("repository_" + repositoryId + "_extraProperties"); if(extraPropertiesBytes != null) { String extraProperties = new String(extraPropertiesBytes, "UTF-8"); Properties properties = new Properties(); ByteArrayInputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(extraProperties.getBytes("UTF-8")); properties.load(is); return properties.getProperty(propertyName); } return null; }
We are considering making a tag with this functionality, but first it would be nice with some feedback on how wise that would be

EDIT: I wonder why I didn't use the already available byte array extraPropertiesBytes when creating the ByteArrayInputStream instead of creating a String from which I extracted the bytes? Oh, well...

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