Validations not working

[Ramkumar]

Hi

I have installed Spring IDE 1.2.2 with Eclipse 3.1.0 RC 3.
I was able to add spring nature to the project, set spring
configuration files in the project, view them in the
"Spring Beans" view and see the graph.

I was trying to test the validation mechanism of SpringIDE.
So I changed a couple of entries in the spring configuration
to generate errors but did not see any errors. When I click
on a valid configuration in the Spring Bean view and select
'Open Bean Class' the bean class is opened. When doing the
same with a wrong configuration an error is not thrown since
the class doesn't exist

The main bean has a reference to "FileCopierOne" but there
are no bean configurations with such an id. I have appended
"NotFound" to an existing valid configuration to make it
invalid. In the same configuration I have changed the class
name to "springwork.FileCopier1NotFound". This class does
not exist in the project and no errors are shown for this too.

I checked the filters option under the problems tab. The
Spring Bean Problem Marker and Spring Problem Marker
are enabled. The filter does not hide errors from this
project.

Any help would be welcome.

Here is the configuration :

<beans>
<bean id="FileOperatorBean" class="springwork.FileOperator">
<constructor-arg index="0"><value>config\\filelocator-config.txt</value></constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg index="1"><value>SlashCopier</value></constructor-arg>
<property name="copierInstance"> <ref bean="FileCopierOne"/> </property>
</bean>

<bean id="FileCopierOneNotFound" class="springwork.FileCopier1NotFound">
<property name="configFileName"><value>config\\fileCopier1.txt</value></property>
</bean>

<bean id="FileCopierTwo" class="springwork.FileCopier2">
<property name="configFileName"><value>config\\fileCopier2.txt</value></property>
</bean>

</beans>

[Torsten Juergeleit]

Ramkumar,

please check if the validator is available and activated via the project's properties page "Builders". Here a builder called "Spring Project Builder" (the validator :-)) should be listed and enabled.

Then make sure that automatic building is enabled (the menu item "Project / Build Automatically" is checked). Otherwise you have to use the menu item "Project / Build Project" to trigger the validator.

Ok, now let's check if the builder is running by opening a Spring beans config file (the ones decorated with a small 'S' and listed in the Spring beans view) with Eclipse's standard text editor via "Open With / Text Editor". This way we can assume that the valdiation errors are not created by your XML editor. Then invalidate the root tag <beans> and save the file. Now you should get a validation error 'Document root element "xxx" must match DOCTYPE root "beans"'. If this isn't the case then something is totally wrong with your setup of Spring IDE.

I created an entry (http://springide.org/project/wiki/SpringideFaq#howto-check-if-the-beansconfigvaldiator-is-running-correctly) in Spring IDE's FAQ.

Cheers,
Torsten

[Ramkumar]

Hi

The automatic build was disabled. I have
enabled it and now works fine.

Thanks.