* Improve ThingTypeXmlProvider exception handling
When a binding such as ZWave has hundereds of ThingTypes it's hard to debug thing type definition issues.
This PR adds a UID (ConfigDescription, ChannelType, ChannelGroupType and ThingType) to the logging so it will be easier to find the root cause of exceptions.
Because the exceptions are caught, an error in one ThingType definition will no longer prevent other perfectly fine ThingTypes to be registered so the impact of definition issues is reduced.
Signed-off-by: Wouter Born <github@maindrain.net>
Fixes the SAT warning: First javadoc author should have "Initial contribution" contribution description.
Signed-off-by: Wouter Born <github@maindrain.net>
* Move thing XML unit tests
Moves the thing XML unit tests from the itests project to the bundle project.
Signed-off-by: Wouter Born <github@maindrain.net>
* channel groups should not require static channels
* Added unit tests
Also-by: Christoph Weitkamp <github@christophweitkamp.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@t-8ch.de>
This addresses https://github.com/eclipse/smarthome/issues/5099 by adding a command description with command options along with the state description.
Command options will give a hint to UIs about the specific commands a channel provides. Command options could be rendered as a drop down and also represent the current state or rendered as push buttons to simply send a command to the ThingHandler.
The infrstructure basically copies the StateDescription infrastructure with CommandDescriptionProviders and an `DynamicCommandDescriptionProvider` interface for bindings to hook in and provide dynamic command options.
Signed-off-by: Henning Treu <henning.treu@googlemail.com>
