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As of 3.2M3 manifest builder complains about space characters in the line following a multi-line entry: Export-Package: com.sympedia.density.eclipse, com.sympedia.density.eclipse.impl <- this one is evil! Worse: The manifest editor automatically inserts a space, whem you paste a whole line after such a multi-line entry.
Not exactly sure what the problem here is. Are the empty lines in the middle of the manifest.mf? If so, they have always been disallowed by the JRE manifest parser, and PDE merely reports the error. As for: "The manifest editor automatically inserts a space, whem you paste a whole line after such a multi-line entry." can you give an example?
Assume this is the end of the manifest.mf: ... Eclipse-LazyStart: true Export-Package: com.sympedia.density.eclipse, com.sympedia.density.eclipse.impl Now place the cursor after "impl" and press return. the line to be insterted will start with a space char and will be marked as an error on save. The other observation: If you cut the whole "LazyStart" line into the clipboard, go to the line *after* "...eclipse.impl" and paste it in (that is moving a complete line behind a multi-line entry), then PDE will again insert an additional space at the end of the file. again it will be marked as an error on save.
I see. In any event, the PDE error marker is fine and valid. PDE is not inserting anything. This is the auto-indent behavior of the platform text editor. Moving to Platform/Text to comment and/or close.
I don't think that the PDE problem marker is valid or fine. I'm not sure about the implementation of the manifest parser but from a requirements point of view I would assume that the absence of a comma after the last element of a multiline entry is enough. Irrespective of any whitespace...
take it up with Sun. We are using the standard Manifest parser that comes with the JRE.
Wassim, I don't get the error when having this: ... Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.core.runtime, org.eclipse.core.resources, org.eclipse.ui, <space> org.eclipse.ui.ide, org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor, org.eclipse.jface.text, org.eclipse.ui.editors ... but I get one ("extranous empty line") when having: ... Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.core.runtime, org.eclipse.core.resources, org.eclipse.ui, <no space here> org.eclipse.ui.ide, org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor, org.eclipse.jface.text, org.eclipse.ui.editors ...
Dani, what you have in comment 6 is a slight variation but of a different way of how strict the JRE manifest parser is. If a completely empty line (no space) is present in a manifest.mf file, it must not be followed by anything. Otherwise, the JRE parser will consider the file invalid. A litmus test for you to see what is valid or not is to keep your eye on the outline view; when it goes blank, the file has become invalid. The original problem has to do with the fact that the very last character in a file must be a newline character. Otherwise, the last header in the file will be ignored. So the extraneous space inserted upon pressing enter results in PDE flagging the error upon saving.
I see.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85883 ***
