topic How to enable link validation? in Alfresco Archive

How to enable link validation?

pyppe — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:57:40 GMT

Hi.How do I enable link validation? I use Alfresco 3.2 CE. I've defined the following properties in file $ALFRESCO_HOME/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/repository.properties:linkvalidation.pollInterval=5000linkvalidation.retryInterval=120000linkvalidation.disableOnFail=false‍‍‍‍‍By setting linkvalidation.p

Re: How to enable link validation?

mrogers — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:44:19 GMT

Some basic alfresco admin reminders.
You configure 3.2 via alfresco-global.properties.
And you never touch the files below WEB-INF since your changes will be overwritten by an alfresco upgrade.

The implementation of Link Validation was problematic. So it has been disabled, pending either rework or removal from the product.

If you really do want to get it to work there is a property on the link validation service that you need to turn on. Otherwise you get behaviour you are seeing.

Re: How to enable link validation?

pyppe — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:26:21 GMT

If you really do want to get it to work there is a property on the link validation service that you need to turn on. Otherwise you get behaviour you are seeing.

Could you please specify what this property is? I've looked at linkvalidation-service-context.xml, but the pollInterval property was the only one related to enabling the service.

Re: How to enable link validation?

mrogers — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:34:18 GMT

linkValidationDisabled

Re: How to enable link validation?

pyppe — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:30:51 GMT

linkValidationDisabled

I added the following property to linkValidationService Bean in file linkvalidation-service-context.xml:


        <property name="linkValidationDisabled">
           <value>false</value>
        </property>
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Still no cigar. Same Exception gets thrown.

Btw, I checked LinkValidationServiceImpl.java of SVN HEAD in http://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-open-mirror/alfresco/HEAD/root/projects/link-validation/source/java/org/alfresco/linkvalidation/LinkValidationServiceImpl.java:


    public boolean isLinkValidationDisabled()
    {
        // TODO merge here with 2.2 JMX flag
        //Boolean disabled = (Boolean)sysAdminCache.get(KEY_SYSADMIN_LINKVALIDATION_DISABLED);
        //return ((! isVirtServerAvailable()) || (disabled == null ? false : disabled.booleanValue());
        return (poll_interval_ <= 0 || (! isVirtServerAvailable()));
    }
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That code would suggest that the service is considered as enabled when pollInterval > 0. I've set it to 5000, but as I said; still no luck.