[CONFIGURATION-285] <configuration fileName="local-configuration.xml" config-optional="true" /> does not report parsing errors in local-configuration.xml

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.5
• Assignee: Oliver Heger
• Reporter: Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
• Created: 11/Jul/07 12:30
• Updated: 22/Aug/09 19:36
• Resolved: 21/Jul/07 19:09

Description

I'm trying to build a configuration system to be shared between our Java applications. I therefore want to have optional configurations included from the main configuration file read by DefaultConfigurationBuilder

<configuration fileName="local-configuration.xml" config-optional="true" />

I have found that if the sub-configuration file is invalid the error is silently ignored. The same without config-options="true" results in a ConfigurationException to be thrown (which wraps a ConfigurationRuntimeException which wraps the ConfigurationException which wraps the SAXException).

I believe that the behaviour is incorrect. The sub-configuration file should be skipped if not found, but any errors found when parsing the existing file should be logged.