Description Simon Archer 2008-09-30 22:04:41 EDT

Using Eclipse 3.5M2.

While bug 248453 covers the structural validation of the <property> element, it would be nice if type-specific validation was provided too.  Since XML is static in nature this should not be too difficult.

1. Validate that the "value" is legal per the specified "type".  So this would be illegal since "Hello" cannot be parsed as Integer. Validation for each of the legal types should be possible.

  <property name="foo" type="Integer" value="Hello"/>

2. For similar reasons above, the following is illegal:

  <property name="foo" type="Integer">Hello</property>
  
3. The OSGi spec says that when you use the body to define multiple values, each item must be on its OWN LINE. So the following is illegal since multiple values per line are illegal (or even because "80 8080 9443" cannot be parsed as an Integer):

  <property name="ports" type="Integer">
    80 8080 9443
  </property>

As is this:

  <property name="ports" type="Integer">80 8080 9443</property>

But the following is fine:

  <property name="ports" type="Integer">
    80
    8080
    9443
  </property>

As is this:

  <property name="ports" type="Integer">80
    8080
    9443
  </property>