Setting validationMode to NONE in org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader disables namespace support [SPR-6336]

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Olaf Otto opened SPR-6336 and commented

When changing the validationMode to XmlBeanDefinitionReader.VALIDATION_NONE, the context will silently ignore schema-based configuration such as:
<aop:scoped-proxy proxy-target-class="true"/>
whereas this setting should only affect the validation phase and not the semantics of the context IMHO.
This is very likely due to the XmlBeanDefinitionReader.namespaceAware property being set to true for validation modes other than NONE.

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Affects: 2.5.6

Attachments:

• validationmode-test.zip (3.13 kB)

Referenced from: commits a6bba67

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Olaf Otto commented

Attached a Junit4 test case reproducing the validationMode issue.

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Juergen Hoeller commented

This is because of schema namespace awareness having to be explicitly enabled for JAXP parsers: If you turn off schema validation, you'll have to turn on schema namespaces through a dedicated reader.setNamespaceAware(true) call yourself. We are combining those two in a setValidating(boolean) method in other places; I might add that to XmlBeanDefinitionReader itself as well.

Juergen

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Olaf Otto commented

Hello Juergen,

Excellent, thank you for the quick reply. It would be great if the behavior you described would be mentioned in the XmlBeanDefinitionReader's javadoc, too.

Olaf

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Juergen Hoeller commented

Added setValidating(boolean) to XmlBeanDefinitionReader as well, managing validationMode and namespaceAware in conjunction.

Juergen