Class ReportValidator

Namespace

DocWright.Reporting

Assembly

DocWright.Reporting.dll

Checks a report definition for the mistakes a designer can make that the XML schema cannot see.

public static class ReportValidator

Inheritance

object

ReportValidator

Inherited Members

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

object.ToString()

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

Remarks

Schema validation is close to worthless as a correctness gate for RDL, and that is measured rather than asserted: the committed schema types sizes, colours and enumerations as bare strings, and models most content as unordered xsd:choice. A report with two textboxes called Total, a tablix bound to a dataset that does not exist, and "2,5pt" where a size belongs validates perfectly and fails at render.

Findings come back as ConversionDiagnostic rather than a type of their own: the code, severity, message and location the designer needs are exactly its four fields, and a parallel type would only have to be converted at every boundary. Location carries the element path.

This is a first set of rules, not the whole of MS-RDL's validity. Everything it reports is a genuine defect; it does not yet claim that silence means the report is valid.

Methods

Validate(ReportDefinition)

Validates a definition.