Failed to read schema document ".../spring-repository.xsd"

[sebdavid]

Hi !

I'm using v2.0.4.RELEASE of spring-ldap-core, referencing it as written in the doc :

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.ldap</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-ldap-core</artifactId>
        <version>2.0.4.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>

I'm using it with other Spring librairies (jdbc, context, tx, and web) in version 4.2.1.RELEASE, but NOT with Spring security.

When the Spring context is loadded, the following error is thrown :

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/repository/spring-repository.xsd', because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not xsd:schema.

The begin of my XML Spring context is :

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:ldap="http://www.springframework.org/schema/ldap"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/ldap http://www.springframework.org/schema/ldap/spring-ldap.xsd">

Indeed, the spring-ldap-2.0.xsd contains the following which can not be found :

    <xs:import namespace="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/repository"
                schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/repository/spring-repository.xsd" />

After some search it seems that the missing xsd is in spring-data-commons, specified as "optional" in the spring-ldap-core pom.xml. So should I really add spring-data-commons as a dependency in my project ?

[RadouaneRoufid]

I'm facing the same problem with the lastest version of spring-ldap-core

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.ldap</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-ldap-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.1.0.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>

I didn't found any direct solution to fix it. I really don't need the spring-data-commons dependency in my project but adding it solved my problem !

[arey]

Still have the same issue with spring-ldap-core 2.3.3.RELEASE

[jzheaux]

That is correct that it is a required dependency when using Spring LDAP's XML config support since it extends Spring Data's repositories element definition. Since not everyone uses XML config, it needs to remain an optional dependency.

The documentation explains that spring-data-commons is required, but it's not entirely accurate. I think a documentation update could help to clarify.