Don't update unchanged things in .things file

There were two problems:
- The old things weren't removed, resulting in accumulation of duplicate things and comparing the new one against the old one resulting in erroneous update
-  Numeric values (usually entered as integer) in a newly loaded Channel Configuration properties are stored as BigDecimal with Scale 0, but subsequent normalization changed it to scale 1. This made equals() return false when it shouldn't. This leads to calling notifyListenersAboutUpdatedElement unnecessarily.

Signed-off-by: Jimmy Tanagra <jcode@tanagra.id.au>

bundles/org.openhab.core.config.core/src/main/java/org/openhab/core/config/core/ConfigUtil.java

@@ -177,10 +177,12 @@ public static Object normalizeType(Object value, @Nullable ConfigDescriptionPara
         if (configDescriptionParameter != null) {
             Normalizer normalizer = NormalizerFactory.getNormalizer(configDescriptionParameter);
             return normalizer.normalize(value);
-        } else if (value instanceof Boolean || value instanceof String || value instanceof BigDecimal) {
-            return value;
+        } else if (value instanceof Boolean) {
+            return NormalizerFactory.getNormalizer(Type.BOOLEAN).normalize(value);
+        } else if (value instanceof String) {
+            return NormalizerFactory.getNormalizer(Type.TEXT).normalize(value);
         } else if (value instanceof Number) {
-            return new BigDecimal(value.toString());
+            return NormalizerFactory.getNormalizer(Type.DECIMAL).normalize(value);
         } else if (value instanceof Collection collection) {
             return normalizeCollection(collection);
         }

bundles/org.openhab.core.config.core/src/main/java/org/openhab/core/config/core/internal/normalization/DecimalNormalizer.java

@@ -28,15 +28,18 @@ final class DecimalNormalizer extends AbstractNormalizer {
     @Override
     public Object doNormalize(Object value) {
         try {
-            if (value instanceof BigDecimal) {
-                return stripTrailingZeros((BigDecimal) value);
+            if (value instanceof BigDecimal bd) {
+                return stripTrailingZeros(bd);
             }
-            if (value instanceof String) {
-                return stripTrailingZeros(new BigDecimal((String) value));
+            if (value instanceof String strValue) {
+                return stripTrailingZeros(new BigDecimal(strValue));
             }
             if (value instanceof Byte) {
                 return new BigDecimal((Byte) value).setScale(1);
             }
+            if (value instanceof Short) {
+                return new BigDecimal((Short) value).setScale(1);
+            }
             if (value instanceof Integer) {
                 return new BigDecimal((Integer) value).setScale(1);
             }

bundles/org.openhab.core.config.core/src/main/java/org/openhab/core/config/core/internal/normalization/NormalizerFactory.java

@@ -51,4 +51,14 @@ public static Normalizer getNormalizer(ConfigDescriptionParameter configDescript
         Normalizer ret = NORMALIZERS.get(configDescriptionParameter.getType());
         return configDescriptionParameter.isMultiple() ? new ListNormalizer(ret) : ret;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the {@link Normalizer} for the given ConfigDescriptionParameter type.
+     *
+     * @param type the type
+     * @return the corresponding {@link Normalizer} (not null)
+     */
+    public static Normalizer getNormalizer(Type type) {
+        return NORMALIZERS.get(type);
+    }
 }

bundles/org.openhab.core.config.core/src/test/java/org/openhab/core/config/core/ConfigurationTest.java

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ public void assertPropertiesCanBeRemoved() {
 
         Configuration configuration = new Configuration(orgProperties);
 
-        assertThat(configuration.get("intField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE)));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("intField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
 
         configuration.setProperties(newProperties);
 
@@ -160,18 +160,42 @@ public void assertToStringHandlesNullValuesGracefully() {
     @Test
     public void assertNormalizationInSetProperties() {
         Map<String, Object> properties = new HashMap<>();
+        properties.put("byteField", Byte.valueOf("1"));
+        properties.put("shortField", Short.valueOf("1"));
         properties.put("intField", 1);
+        properties.put("longField", Long.valueOf("1"));
+        properties.put("doubleField", Double.valueOf("1"));
+        properties.put("floatField", Float.valueOf("1"));
+        properties.put("bigDecimalField", BigDecimal.ONE);
 
         Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
         configuration.setProperties(properties);
-        assertThat(configuration.get("intField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE)));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("byteField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("shortField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("intField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("longField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("doubleField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("floatField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("bigDecimalField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
     }
 
     @Test
     public void assertNormalizationInPut() {
         Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
+        configuration.put("byteField", Byte.valueOf("1"));
+        configuration.put("shortField", Short.valueOf("1"));
         configuration.put("intField", 1);
-        assertThat(configuration.get("intField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE)));
+        configuration.put("longField", Long.valueOf("1"));
+        configuration.put("doubleField", Double.valueOf("1"));
+        configuration.put("floatField", Float.valueOf("1"));
+        configuration.put("bigDecimalField", BigDecimal.ONE);
+        assertThat(configuration.get("byteField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("shortField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("intField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("longField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("doubleField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("floatField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
+        assertThat(configuration.get("bigDecimalField"), is(equalTo(BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(1))));
     }
 
     @Test

bundles/org.openhab.core.model.thing/src/org/openhab/core/model/thing/internal/GenericThingProvider.xtend

@@ -605,8 +605,8 @@ class GenericThingProvider extends AbstractProviderLazyNullness<Thing> implement
         if (!loadedXmlThingTypes.contains(factory.bundleName) || modelRepository == null) {
             return
         }
-        val oldThings = thingsMap.get(modelName).clone
         val newThings = newArrayList()
+        val oldThings = thingsMap.put(modelName, newThings)
 
         val model = modelRepository.getModel(modelName) as ThingModel
         if (model !== null) {
@@ -616,7 +616,6 @@ class GenericThingProvider extends AbstractProviderLazyNullness<Thing> implement
         }
 
         newThings.forEach [ newThing |
-            thingsMap.get(modelName).add(newThing)
             val oldThing = oldThings.findFirst[it.UID == newThing.UID]
             if (oldThing !== null) {
                 if (!ThingHelper.equals(oldThing, newThing)) {

bundles/org.openhab.core.storage.json/src/test/java/org/openhab/core/storage/json/internal/JsonStorageTest.java

@@ -107,10 +107,10 @@ public void testIntegerScaleFromCache() {
         DummyObject dummy = objectStorage.get("DummyObject");
 
         assertNotNull(dummy);
-        assertEquals(0, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testShort")).scale());
-        assertEquals(0, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testInt")).scale());
-        assertEquals(0, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testLong")).scale());
-        assertEquals(0, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testBigDecimal")).scale());
+        assertEquals(1, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testShort")).scale());
+        assertEquals(1, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testInt")).scale());
+        assertEquals(1, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testLong")).scale());
+        assertEquals(1, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testBigDecimal")).scale());
     }
 
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
@@ -121,14 +121,14 @@ public void testIntegerScaleFromDisk() {
         DummyObject dummy = objectStorage.get("DummyObject");
 
         assertNotNull(dummy);
-        assertEquals(0, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testShort")).scale());
-        assertEquals(0, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testInt")).scale());
-        assertEquals(0, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testLong")).scale());
-        assertEquals(0, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testBigDecimal")).scale());
-        assertEquals(0, ((List<BigDecimal>) dummy.configuration.get("multiInt")).get(0).scale());
-        assertEquals(0, ((List<BigDecimal>) dummy.configuration.get("multiInt")).get(1).scale());
-        assertEquals(0, ((List<BigDecimal>) dummy.configuration.get("multiInt")).get(2).scale());
-        assertEquals(0, ((BigDecimal) dummy.channels.get(0).configuration.get("testChildLong")).scale());
+        assertEquals(1, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testShort")).scale());
+        assertEquals(1, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testInt")).scale());
+        assertEquals(1, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testLong")).scale());
+        assertEquals(1, ((BigDecimal) dummy.configuration.get("testBigDecimal")).scale());
+        assertEquals(1, ((List<BigDecimal>) dummy.configuration.get("multiInt")).get(0).scale());
+        assertEquals(1, ((List<BigDecimal>) dummy.configuration.get("multiInt")).get(1).scale());
+        assertEquals(1, ((List<BigDecimal>) dummy.configuration.get("multiInt")).get(2).scale());
+        assertEquals(1, ((BigDecimal) dummy.channels.get(0).configuration.get("testChildLong")).scale());
     }
 
     @Test