Re: expressions conflict with property-placeholder

Steve A. wrote:

Regardless, that worked!  Thanks!

Apparently, I spoke too soon. :-(  It worked for all cases except for any port attribute substitution which would lead me to believe that it must be trying to validate the attribute type before the substitution occurs.

Check out excerpts from my configuration and resulting errors below.

Thoughts?

Steve
...
        <spring:bean id="placeholderConfig" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
                <spring:property name="location" value="mule.properties" />
                <spring:property name="placeholderPrefix" value="$${" />
        </spring:bean>
...
        <smtp:outbound-endpoint transformer-refs = "ObjectToString StringToEmailMessage"
                from = "$${smtp.from}"
                host = "$${smtp.host}"
                password = "$${smtp.password}"
                port = "$${smtp.port}"
                replyTo="$${smtp.replyTo}"
                subject = "$${smtp.subject}"
                to = "$${smtp.to}"
                user = "$${smtp.user}"
        />    
...

INFO  2008-09-25 09:06:33,565 [main] org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader: Loading XML bean definitions from URL [file:/C:/Dev/Workspaces/sanderson/IDP/conf/idp-mule-config.xml]
ERROR 2008-09-25 09:06:34,049 [main] org.mule.config.builders.AbstractConfigurationBuilder: Configuration with "org.mule.config.spring.SpringXmlConfigurationBuilder" failed.
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 88 in XML document from URL [file:/C:/Dev/Workspaces/sanderson/IDP/conf/idp-mule-config.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.3: '$${smtp.port}' is not a valid value of union type 'substitutablePortNumber'.
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:404)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:342)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:310)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143)
        at org.mule.config.spring.MuleApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(MuleApplicationContext.java:216)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:123)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:423)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:353)
        at org.mule.config.spring.MuleApplicationContext.<init>(MuleApplicationContext.java:102)
        at org.mule.config.spring.MuleApplicationContext.<init>(MuleApplicationContext.java:56)
        at org.mule.config.spring.SpringXmlConfigurationBuilder.createSpringParentRegistry(SpringXmlConfigurationBuilder.java:95)
        at org.mule.config.spring.SpringXmlConfigurationBuilder.doConfigure(SpringXmlConfigurationBuilder.java:71)
        at org.mule.config.builders.AbstractConfigurationBuilder.configure(AbstractConfigurationBuilder.java:38)
        at org.mule.config.builders.AbstractResourceConfigurationBuilder.configure(AbstractResourceConfigurationBuilder.java:78)
        at org.mule.config.builders.AutoConfigurationBuilder.autoConfigure(AutoConfigurationBuilder.java:107)
        at org.mule.config.builders.AutoConfigurationBuilder.doConfigure(AutoConfigurationBuilder.java:57)
        at org.mule.config.builders.AbstractConfigurationBuilder.configure(AbstractConfigurationBuilder.java:38)
        at org.mule.config.builders.AbstractResourceConfigurationBuilder.configure(AbstractResourceConfigurationBuilder.java:78)
        at org.mule.context.DefaultMuleContextFactory.createMuleContext(DefaultMuleContextFactory.java:178)
        at org.mule.MuleServer.initialize(MuleServer.java:351)
        at org.mule.MuleServer.run(MuleServer.java:257)
        at org.mule.MuleServer.start(MuleServer.java:244)
        at org.mule.MuleServer.main(MuleServer.java:121)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.3: '$${smtp.port}' is not a valid value of union type 'substitutablePortNumber'.
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:131)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:384)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:318)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator$XSIErrorReporter.reportError(XMLSchemaValidator.java:410)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.reportSchemaError(XMLSchemaValidator.java:3165)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.processOneAttribute(XMLSchemaValidator.java:2748)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.processAttributes(XMLSchemaValidator.java:2685)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.handleStartElement(XMLSchemaValidator.java:2037)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.emptyElement(XMLSchemaValidator.java:705)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:377)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2740)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:647)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:508)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:807)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:107)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:225)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:283)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultDocumentLoader.loadDocument(DefaultDocumentLoader.java:75)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:396)
        ... 22 more