[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFLY-6938) Startup error messages caused by expression where expressions are not allowed are confusing

[Ondra Chaloupka (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-6938?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Ondra Chaloupka moved JBEAP-5534 to WFLY-6938:
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              Project: WildFly  (was: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform)
                  Key: WFLY-6938  (was: JBEAP-5534)
             Workflow: GIT Pull Request workflow   (was: CDW with loose statuses v1)
          Component/s: Server
                           (was: Server)
                           (was: User Experience)
       Target Release:   (was: 7.1.0.GA)
    Affects Version/s: 10.1.0.CR1
                           (was: 7.1.0.DR2)


> Startup error messages caused by expression where expressions are not allowed are confusing
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WFLY-6938
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-6938
>             Project: WildFly
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>          Components: Server
>    Affects Versions: 10.1.0.CR1
>            Reporter: Ondra Chaloupka
>            Priority: Minor
>
> When a property expression is used at place where expression usage is not allowed then error message which is shown is quite confusing. From user point of view (especially the newcomer) it would be nice if the error message shows the real reason - usage of expression at place where is not permitted.
> Maybe CLI could warn on usage of expression on place where is not allowed too.
> Documentation recommends configuration with CLI, editing of XML file is common too. More of it there are some tasks which are harder to be done with CLI and editing XML is faster/easier.
> Examples:
> Setting
> {code}
> /subsystem=ee/managed-executor-service=default:write-attribute(name=context-service, value="${my.context.service}")
> {code}
> ends with this error message during startup
> {code}
> 14:13:21,076 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYCTL0013: Operation ("add") failed - address: ([
>     ("subsystem" => "ee"),
>     ("managed-executor-service" => "default")
> ]) - failure description: {
>     "WFLYCTL0412: Required services that are not installed:" => ["jboss.concurrent.ee.context.service.${my.context.service}"],
>     "WFLYCTL0180: Services with missing/unavailable dependencies" => ["jboss.concurrent.ee.executor.default is missing [jboss.concurrent.ee.context.service.${my.context.service}]"]}
> {code}
> another confusion is setting name of host in {{host-slave.xml}} file. When set as 
> {code}
> <host xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:4.2" host="${host.name}">
> {code}
> then NullPointerException is thrown.
> {code}
> [Host Controller] 14:18:45,238 ERROR [org.jboss.as.host.controller] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYHC0033: Caught exception during boot: org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.ConfigurationPersistenceException: WFLYCTL0085: Failed to parse configuration
>  at org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.XmlConfigurationPersister.load(XmlConfigurationPersister.java:131)
>  at org.jboss.as.host.controller.HostControllerConfigurationPersister.load(HostControllerConfigurationPersister.java:188)
>  at org.jboss.as.host.controller.DomainModelControllerService.boot(DomainModelControllerService.java:594)
>  at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractControllerService$1.run(AbstractControllerService.java:299)
>  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)[Host Controller] Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError
>  at [row,col]:[3,1][Host Controller] Message: WFLYCTL0197: Unexpected attribute 'host' encountered
>  at org.jboss.as.controller.parsing.ParseUtils.unexpectedAttribute(ParseUtils.java:117)
>  at org.jboss.as.host.controller.parsing.HostXml_4.readHostElement(HostXml_4.java:311)
>  at org.jboss.as.host.controller.parsing.HostXml_4.readElement(HostXml_4.java:170)
>  at org.jboss.as.host.controller.parsing.HostXml.readElement(HostXml.java:79)
>  at org.jboss.as.host.controller.parsing.HostXml.readElement(HostXml.java:50)
>  at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.processNested(XMLMapperImpl.java:110)
>  at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.parseDocument(XMLMapperImpl.java:69)
>  at org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.XmlConfigurationPersister.load(XmlConfigurationPersister.java:123) ... 4 more
> {code}



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