[jboss-as7-dev] importance of model descriptions and request validation

[Brian Stansberry]

On 10/31/11 7:35 AM, Alexey Loubyansky wrote:
> We don't validate request properties on the server side. Not in general,
> at least. It's a responsibility of handler implementations that, in a
> good case, validate only property values.
>
> There were complains from CLI users about the fact that unsupported
> properties in requests (put by mistake) were simply ignored w/o a
> warning. I think it makes sense to fix it in a general way on the server
> side.

If the server side rejects unknown parameters, an older-version slave 
host may not be able to function in a domain with a newer-version master.

> Anyway, I added validation in the CLI based on the model description.
>
> So now, of course, if a model description is incomplete, the CLI won't
> allow an operation request which is actually correct.
>
> Here is one example
> AS7-2432 CLI does not allow a new security-realm to be defined within
> the management section of a host
>
>
> Alexey
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