CSS validation by URL is not implemented or just does not work

[emukhin]

ValidationResponse responseCSS = new ValidatorBuilder().css().validate("http://google.com");
returns "Parse Error"

[yegor256]

@emukhin did you try http://www.google.com instead?

[emukhin]

@yegor256 I did. Still the same.
here is what I got as the response:

Validity: FALSE
Validator: "http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/"
DOCTYPE: ""
Charset: "UTF-8"
Errors:
[1:0] "", "", "", "Parse Error"
Warnings:

[yegor256]

@emukhin maybe the W3C validator is broken at the moment. sometimes this happens. please try again in a few hours.

[emukhin]

@yegor256 I've been trying since yesterday. No luck. Are you sure it supposed to work that way?

[emukhin]

Simple get request http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&output=soap12 returns well-formed results that makes me think that the service is working

[yegor256]

@emukhin this could be our bug then. let us investigate...

[dmarkov]

@apocarteres the issue is yours, please help

[apocarteres]

yeah, it's bug. Btw, http://www.google.com is not valid anyway

[apocarteres]

Well, according to source code ValidatorBuilder().css().validate expects the CSS, but not the URL, thus Parse error is expected here, since it can't parse http://google.com as CSS document

[yegor256]

@apocarteres let's update the documentation to avoid such confusions?

[apocarteres]

@yegor256 ok

[emukhin]

So, validation by URL won't be implemented, right?

[apocarteres]

@emukhin probably in future, but right now it consumes CSS only

[apocarteres]

@yegor256 seems that all corresponding JavaDocs say that HTML/CSS is expected. I haven't managed to find JavaDocs which says that URL expected there.

[yegor256]

@apocarteres let's emphasize this in the documentation, with a "notice" or something. To make sure it's clear that we're expecting a text, not a URL

[apocarteres]

@yegor256 please check

[yegor256]

@apocarteres I'm not the reporter, ask @emukhin to review it

[apocarteres]

@emukhin added comment to JavaDoc. please check

[emukhin]

Thanks. It seems clear. Feel really sorry for bothering. I should have believed the documentation. But I thought that you might forgot to mention this way of using the library.

[apocarteres]

@emukhin nps. can u close the issue please?

[dmarkov]

@apocarteres done, I added 30 mins in payment 50842099. +30 to your rating, your total score is +45