Re: XML Validator - C# code - catching errors problem

Hello, I'm working in a project where one of the requirements is to validate an incoming or outgoing document against the schema, catching the error messages that may appear while failing validation. I looked on the web for answers, and the best I could find is in the following site:

http://thearchhacker.blogspot.com/2004/09/cool-xsd-validation-function-for.html

Because I wanted the function to return multiple errors (and not just the first failure) I have modified the code to the following:

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Schema;
using System.Reflection;

namespace BiztalkUtils
{
public class Utils
{
static int ErrorsCount = 0;
static string ErrorMessage = \"\";

public static void ValidateDocument(XmlDocument businessDocument, string schemaStrongName)
{
// Constants
const int PARTS_IN_SCHEMA_STRONG_NAME = 2;
const int PART_CLASS_NAME = 0;
const int PART_QUALIFIED_ASSEMBLY_NAME = 1;

ErrorsCount = 0;
ErrorMessage = \"\";

// Parse schema strong name
string[] assemblyNameParts = schemaStrongName.Split(new char[] { ',' }, PARTS_IN_SCHEMA_STRONG_NAME);
string className = assemblyNameParts[PART_CLASS_NAME].Trim();
string fullyQualifiedAssemblyName = assemblyNameParts[PART_QUALIFIED_ASSEMBLY_NAME].Trim();

// Load assembly
Assembly schemaAssembly = Assembly.Load(fullyQualifiedAssemblyName);

// Create instance of the BTS schema in order to get to the actual schemas
Type schemaType = schemaAssembly.GetType(className);
Microsoft.XLANGs.BaseTypes.SchemaBase btsSchemaCollection = (Microsoft.XLANGs.BaseTypes.SchemaBase)Activator.CreateInstance(schemaType);

// Set up XmlVali######Reader and validate document
XmlParserContext parserContext = new XmlParserContext(null,null, \"\", XmlSpace.None);
XmlVali######Reader reader = new XmlVali######Reader(businessDocument.OuterXml, XmlNodeType.Document,parserContext);

reader.ValidationType = ValidationType.Schema;
reader.Schemas.Add(btsSchemaCollection.SchemaCollection);

// Set up ValidationEventHandler
reader.ValidationEventHandler += new ValidationEventHandler(reader_ValidationEventHandler);

while (reader.Read()) { }

reader.Close();

// Throw XmlSchemaException to be caught by BizTalk containing all validation errors
if (ErrorsCount > 0)
{
throw new System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaException(ErrorMessage);
}
}

private static void reader_ValidationEventHandler(object sender, ValidationEventArgs e)
{
ErrorsCount++;

//Construct error message
ErrorMessage = ErrorMessage
+ \"Error #\" + ErrorsCount
+ \" (Line \" + e.Exception.LineNumber
+ \", Pos \" + e.Exception.LinePosition + \"): \"
+ e.Exception.Message
+ System.Environment.NewLine;
}

}

}
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Note: Substitute \"######\" in the code with d`a`t`i`n`g (without the \"'\") as the spam blocker would not let me attach the code otherwise.

This works perfectly when I test my orchestration and validate 1 or a few xml files at a time. However, when I try to validate 100 files at once (50 valid and 50 invalid), I get unpredictable behaviors (the number of files that pass validation is not always 50, and the error messages sometimes get \"mixed up\" between the different messages).

I am not an expert in C#, but I think there may be something wrong with the class I'm using.

I also tried putting the call to the validation function inside an Atomic Scope, disabling batching and playing with the other settings, but the different instances that are being run by BizTalk still seem to interfere with each other. As I said, if I validate just one file at a time, everything works perfectly.

I would REALLY appreciate any comments and help on why this behavior may be occuring. Thanks

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This works perfectly when I test my orchestration and validate 1 or a few xml files at a time. However, when I try to validate 100 files at once (50 valid and 50 invalid), I get unpredictable behaviors (the number of files that pass validation is not always 50, and the error messages sometimes get \"mixed up\" between the different messages).

I am not an expert in C#, but I think there may be something wrong with the class I'm using.

I also tried putting the call to the validation function inside an Atomic Scope, disabling batching and playing with the other settings, but the different instances that are being run by BizTalk still seem to interfere with each other. As I said, if I validate just one file at a time, everything works perfectly.

I would REALLY appreciate any comments on why this behavior may be occuring. Thanks

I think the problem is that the method is Static. I have had problems with that in the past.

I’m guessing it’s static since it is working with Xml items that are not serilizable even if you marked the class that way.

First off, I’d make the class an instance class and mark it serilizable to see if that works.

If not, you might want to try [ThreadStatic] as this will create a new object per thread (I think – never actually tried it).

If neither of those works, you’ll have to make it non serilizable and an instance object thus calling it inside an Atomic Scope shape.

Let me know how it goes.

[quote user=\"Stephen W. Thomas\"]
If not, you might want to try [ThreadStatic] as this will create a new object per thread (I think – never actually tried it).