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Kevin Brown commented on SHINDIG-484:
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That would require that the guice module be aware of every single possible 
value in the properties files and how to validate them. That just doesn't scale.

> DefaultGuiceModule should validate required properties
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SHINDIG-484
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-484
>             Project: Shindig
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Paul Lindner
>
> Before we call 
>    Names.bindProperties(this.binder(), properties);
> we should do basic validation of the parameters we're injecting.  Currently 
> server startup or servlet init will croak
> with cryptic error messages if the appropriate parameters are not specified.
> For example I spent a few hours with this error:
> SEVERE: Allocate exception for servlet xml-to-html
> com.google.inject.ConfigurationException: Error at 
> org.apache.shindig.gadgets.servlet.GadgetRenderingServlet.setGadgetRenderer(GadgetRenderingServlet.java:38)
>  Binding to 
> com.google.inject.Provider<org.apache.shindig.gadgets.servlet.GadgetRenderingTask>
>  not found. No bindings to that type were found.
> And this was actually caused by a missing String binding for 
> "features.default" for GadgetFeatureRegistry
>   public GadgetFeatureRegistry(@Named("features.default") String featureFiles,

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