What about a global configuration option that controls whether strictness is enforced by default? Maybe we could include a validation report in exception messages? There may be something between black and white here.
-- David Winslow OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 07:32 -0600, Justin Deoliveira wrote: > As always this is a tough call. When thinking just about the user who is > hacking up a one off request, I agree strictness is probably the way to > go. But what about people who have sizable client applications built > that rely on this tolerance by default? Even a simple change such as > adding a parameter to the request (?strict=false) can make the upgrade > to 2.0 a deal breaker if we are talking about many clients deployed. > > Anyways, i am not against this, i just think that we will run into a > "grass is greener" situation in which once we enable the flag, instead > of running into many confused users, we will run into many irate ones > whose applications stop working. > > Interested in hearing other peoples opinions. This should probably be > discussed on the users list. I am in particular interested to hear from > those who have already gone through an upgrade and dealt with xml > parsing behavior changes. > > 2c. > > > Andrea Aime wrote: > > Hi, > > the 2.0 in the release is there to signify a change. It's the UI, it's > > the config subsystem. > > > > I was wondering if it could be a good occasion to start being strict > > about xml request schema compliance? > > We could have a flag and make strict the default, but allow people to > > turn that off and fall back on the non strict behavior. > > > > I'm asking this because I keep on hearing people confused because > > the parser just skips over the elements it does not understand > > and people are left wondering what's wrong. I know that one > > can append ?strict=true to the url to have schema validation > > done, the problem is that those users tripping into the lack > > of error messages don't ;-) > > > > Cheers > > Andrea > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
