On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 04:40:20PM +0100, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > Jeff Turner wrote: > > >At that level, there isn't enough info to provide a user-friendly error > >message. I think the best solution is to add a check in the > >treeprocessor's ReadNodeBuilder. I've now got it displaying: > > > > Reader at > > file:/home/jeff/apache/xml/xml-forrest/build/webapp/sitemap.xmap:135:50 > > must have a 'src' attribute > > > > > > Same applies to readers : you may have some readers that don't need an > 'src' attribute. Please, let this be handled by the components that > actually require it.
Bugger ;P Perhaps components should provide the container with a mini schema, specifying what they expect from a Configuration object. Then the container could validate the component's input, and generate meaningful error messages. I'll have a play and maybe follow up on avalon-dev. thanks, --Jeff > Sylvain >
