[DUG] Validating CDS files

[Todd]

Hi Matthew

Are the CDS files being stored as disk files or in a database? How are 
they being corrupted? Faulty back up media? Perhaps you could add some 
meta-data to each file as it is saved.

Todd.
> The driver for the question, is that we have some application client
> datasets which are put into a defaulted state if a corrupt cds file is
> loaded.
>
> Yes with XML, we can just validate the XML, but we use the binary format
> so that solution does not apply.
>
> At present we basically have two solutions.
>
> 1. Load into a test clientdataset as suggested by Alistair. This is a
> valid solution but does add considerable load time into the startup.
>
> 2. Can load into application clientdatasets, and dispose and reload if
> error encountered. This is ok also but does require additional loading in
> case of error.
>
> What I'm really after is a file level test to check that file should even
> be attempted. e.g. open file stream seek start and seek end and check a
> couple of bytes... that type of thing.
>
> Matt.
>
>
>
>    
>> What does "validate" mean for a CDS file ?
>>
>> For XML it obviously/intuitively means "is a valid XML representation of a
>> CDS file" but for a CDS file, if you dumped it from a client data set in
>> the
>> first place, what additional validation would be needed to ensure that it
>> is
>> a CDS file ?
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Behalf Of Matthew Comb
>> Sent: Monday, 17 January 2011 10:27
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>> Subject: Re: [DUG] Validating CDS files
>>
>> Hey Cam, for space size reasons, we're using the CDS format not the XML
>> format as the files get pretty large.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>      
>>> If you have dumped the CDS as XML then you can validate it using XSD.  I
>>> haven't come across a schema for it but it shouldn't be hard to make.
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>>> Subject: [DUG] Validating CDS files
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>>> Does anyone know if there is a way to Validate a CDS file (midas) before
>>> attempting to load it into the dataset ?
>>>
>>> Matt
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