I've just checked in Ram's patch to convert validation messages (i.e. those messages indicating that the user have provided invalid input of some form) to resource bundles and pass them through the Monitor. We need to take account of this change as we change or add code to do with validation. Primarily the change;
- Pushes down a Monitor object to various parts of code that produce validation type messages. - Creates a problem object to hold any reported warning or error (sometimes there a convenience error() or warning() operation has been added if there are a lot of messages in a file) -- Each problem is identified by an id string -- The id string references into a resource bundle where the full message has been moved to. There is now a resource bundle in each module that raises validation messages - Passes the Problem on to the Monitor object Our default Monitor object simply passes the message to the JDK logger at the moment but you could imagine a Monitor that collects them all together for later analysis. Currently the majority of the exceptions that are thrown during validation are still there so I guess we need to go through taking out the ones that are not now absolutely necessary. The next job! With this done we have catalogs of all of the errors/warnings that a user is likely to come across (and examples of why the occur in the validation itests) which should help our documentation somewhat. Big thanks to Ram Simon
