When rendering unresolved ConfigConcatenation, whitespaces are erroneously included

[guerrillalg]

Given we have a following config, where we want to merge two maps (objects) and for formatting purposes we add a whitespace between them. When we render an unresolved ConfigObject, we get a wrong unparseable result:

var rendered = ConfigFactory.parseString(
                """
                        objectA {
                          a = "A"
                        }
                        objectB {
                         b = "B"
                        }
                        objectC = ${?objectA} ${objectB}
                        """,
                ConfigParseOptions.defaults().setClassLoader(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()))
                .root()
                .render(ConfigRenderOptions.defaults());

Result: {"objectA":{"a":"A"},"objectB":{"b":"B"},"objectC":${?objectA}" "${objectB}}

The whitespace between objects is turned to a string containing a whitespace.

However, when we do resolve:

var rendered = ConfigFactory.parseString(
                """
                        objectA {
                          a = "A"
                        }
                        objectB {
                         b = "B"
                        }
                        objectC = ${?objectA} ${objectB}
                        """,
                ConfigParseOptions.defaults().setClassLoader(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()))
                .resolve()
                .root()
                .render(ConfigRenderOptions.defaults());

we get the correct result: {"objectA":{"a":"A"},"objectB":{"b":"B"},"objectC":{"a":"A","b":"B"}}

A workaround for this problem can be to not have a whitespace in the concatenation: objectC = ${?objectA}${objectB}

However, the actual fix of the bug should be done in the ConfigConcatenation#render. This class already contains a method isIgnoredWhitespace and it is used in join method to skip those formatting whitespaces. The solution can be easily applied by using the same isIgnoredWhitespace method to filter pieces in render method.

[guerrillalg]

So, the fix is there and everyone is ignoring it.. :(

[ekrich]

See https://github.com/lightbend/config/issues/789 I have a Scala port mentioned there that is also Cross platform to Scala.js and Scala Native if you are interested.