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Strange Ant-Editor warning [message #1386078]

Fri, 13 June 2014 07:04

Eclipse User

When I edit an ant file with Eclipse's Ant-Editor (version Kepler + SR1) for every property definition it warns me with 'property does not support the "value" attribute'

Even if I let the editor create that statement itself, i.e. if I just write "

<pro

" and then hit Ctrl-Blank and then pick the "property with name and value" suggestion it automatically inserts:

<property name="name" value="value"/>

which is immediately flagged with a warning 'property does not support the "value" attribute'.

But "property" DOES support the value attribute, so why is this flagged with a warning? What am I missing?

Example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="test" default="test" basedir=".">
    <property name="name" value="value"/>

    <target name="test">
    </target>
</project>

Line 3 is flagged with said error. Any idea, why?

M.

Re: Strange Ant-Editor warning [message #1386673 is a reply to message #1386078]

Thu, 19 June 2014 07:24

Eclipse User

Hi,
It is working fine with me, can you create a bug with some details of your environment and workspace.

Re: Strange Ant-Editor warning [message #1386697 is a reply to message #1386673]

Thu, 19 June 2014 10:21

Eclipse User

Hm - that's interesting! To provide an example I just created a new workspace and in it a new Java project and in that I declared a new build.xml file and entered a minimalistic ant-script skeleton. And in THAT ant-script a line like

<property name="foo" value="bar"/>

has NO yellow wiggles and no warnings!

So, this must indeed somehow have to do with the workspace that I am using! But I don't want recreate my entire workspace! So, how can I convince the ant-editor (and only that!) to clear its settings?

M.

[Updated on: Thu, 19 June 2014 10:21] by Moderator

Re: Strange Ant-Editor warning [message #1386763 is a reply to message #1386697]

Fri, 20 June 2014 04:26

Eclipse User

You can try "Restore Defaults" in the Preference page for entries under "Ant".

Re: Strange Ant-Editor warning [message #1391874 is a reply to message #1386763]

Tue, 01 July 2014 10:44

Eclipse User

Alas, "Restore Defaults" did not remove the yellow wiggles for property tags... Sad

But meanwhile I found, that I can get rid of these wiggles and warnings, if I go to Windows => Preferences => Ant => Problems tab - and under the label "set the severity level for the following buildfile problems" set the entry for "Property setting tasks" to "Ignore".

But why does this yield warnings if I set this to warning level? What is the "issue" that it claims to detect here?

M.

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