Bug 493155 - XML: Better error reporting to the user is required
Summary: XML: Better error reporting to the user is required
Status: NEW
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Product: Tracecompass
Classification: Tools
Component: TMF (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal
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Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2016-05-06 11:11 EDT by Genevieve Bastien CLA
Modified: 2016-05-06 11:11 EDT (History)
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Description Genevieve Bastien CLA 2016-05-06 11:11:38 EDT 
With XML analyses, we introduced a syntax and semantics that a user can use to develop their analyses.

For the syntax, there is an XSD, which they may or may not use in development. In which case, any validation error when importing should be reported to the user. Right now it silently fails to import the file.

For the semantics though, that is a bit more complicated. The XML analysis should be "compiled" and any error reported, but the file should not fail to import (for eg. non-existent trace type, states, fsms, etc).

And the modal message box may not be the best place for that, though for a start, it certainly would be better than the nothing we have now.

Patch https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/72080/ is an example of message that should be displayed to the user, but it needs to be put <somewhere>