JOSM in Windows doesn't load local validator files

[naoliv]

I was seeing an user having a problem while trying to load a local .cfg validator file.

I have tested this with the currest stable r6502 and r6627, by using all the four combinations that I could think:

c:\dir\another\file.cfg
c:/dir/another/file.cfg
file://c:\dir\another\file.cfg
file://c:/dir/another/file.cfg

JOSM seems to see that the file is there (if I use a path that doesn't exist JOSM says that it could't read).
But there is nothing on console (error or any kind of info about the file) nor I can see any result from the local validator rules.

[stoecker]

Hmm, isn't it "​file:///"?

[naoliv]

​file:/// is on Linux (and other *nix). The third / is part of the full path
/home/naoliv/foo.cfg is then ​file:///home/naoliv/foo.cfg
Right?

[naoliv]

Googling and it seems to be ​file:/// (too?)
But if there isn't any warning or error from JOSM (that it couldn't read the file), then I understand that it's finding the file.

[stoecker]

Hmm, did you add the proper comment line in the beginning? Otherwise JOSM handles the file as good/bad words file, the oldest supported format.

[naoliv]

Damn the first line... :-)
Can I ask for some kind of info from JOSM when this happens?
For example, if it loads a .cfg file without this header, it could output (at the console) an info message, saying that the file will be interpreted as good/bad words.

[stoecker]

We could only drop support for old format. As old-format has no header such a message would always occur. :-(

[naoliv]

But only a message like it already does for mapcss files:

INFO: Adding /home/naoliv/.josm/validador-local.mapcss to tag checker

If you look at the console output, nothing is displayed about the .cfg file (if it was loaded as a proper validator or as the old-format).
It should be something like this:

if header is found:
     print "INFO: Adding $file to tag checker"
else:
     print "INFO: Adding $file as good/bad word"

(or some better phrase for the second case)

[simon04]

In 6638/josm:

fix #9539 - *.cfg tag checker: display when custom files are loaded together with their type (tag checker, ignore tags, spellchecker)