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This PR requires eclipse-lemminx/lemminx#1891

Add "Catalog entry" option to the "Bind to grammar/schema..." wizard:

  • Pick from existing catalog entries (grouped by catalog file)
  • Create new catalog entry in existing catalog
  • Create new catalog file and register in xml.catalogs setting
  • Auto-detect entry type (DTD→public, XSD/RNG→uri)
  • Add design document with catalog spec overview and decisions

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  • New Features
    • The grammar-binding wizard now offers XML catalog entries alongside local and remote grammar sources.
    • Choose an existing catalog entry, add an entry to an existing catalog, or create a catalog and add an entry. The wizard registers catalogs and binds the XML document through the selected entry.
    • Entry types are suggested based on the grammar file extension, and the wizard supports identifiers for catalog entries.
  • Documentation
    • Added design documentation describing catalog-based grammar binding and its workflows.

The grammar-association wizard now offers catalog entries as a grammar source. It can list and bind existing entries, or guide users through creating or selecting a catalog and adding an entry. Documentation describes the proposed catalog behavior and wizard flow.

Changes: Catalog-Based Grammar Binding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Catalog entry and binding design
docs/design/BindGrammarViaCatalog.md
The design document describes catalog entry types, enumeration and resolution, grammar binding, wizard flows, and implementation phases.
Select and bind catalog entries
src/commands/registerCommands.ts, src/commands/serverCommandConstants.ts, docs/BindingWithGrammar.md
The wizard adds a catalog-entry source, presents available entries, and applies server-provided binding edits. The command constants and user documentation cover the catalog-entry option.
Create catalogs and add entries
src/commands/registerCommands.ts
The command can create or select a catalog, register it in xml.catalogs, prompt for entry details, add the entry, and apply and save the returned edit.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant grammarAssociationCommand
  participant XMLLanguageServer
  participant Workspace
  User->>grammarAssociationCommand: Select catalog-entry source
  grammarAssociationCommand->>XMLLanguageServer: Request bindable catalog entries
  XMLLanguageServer-->>grammarAssociationCommand: Return entries
  grammarAssociationCommand-->>User: Present entry choices
  User->>grammarAssociationCommand: Select an entry
  grammarAssociationCommand->>XMLLanguageServer: Request binding edit
  XMLLanguageServer-->>grammarAssociationCommand: Return edit
  grammarAssociationCommand->>Workspace: Apply edit to XML document
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Suggested reviewers: datho7561

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 00c47

The catalog wizard has recoverable edge cases: overlapping runs can lose a catalog registration, and a failed save can leave a new entry unpersisted while binding continues. Merging requires owner awareness of these limitations; selecting another existing catalog remains available.

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Title check Passed The title "Add bind grammar via XML catalog wizard" matches the main change. The changeset adds a "Catalog entry" option to the "Bind to grammar/schema" wizard, which lets users bind XML documents thr…
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The title "Add bind grammar via XML catalog wizard" matches the main change. The changeset adds a "Catalog entry" option to the "Bind to grammar/schema" wizard, which lets users bind XML documents through XML catalog entries. The title is short, specific, and uses the same terms as the changeset.

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The description states that the PR adds a "Catalog entry" option to the "Bind to grammar/schema..." wizard. It lists picking existing catalog entries, creating entries, creating and registering catalog files, auto-detecting entry types, and adding a design document. These items match the changeset. The description also notes a dependency on lemminx PR #1891.

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Review comments at @src/commands/registerCommands.ts:
- Around line 444-453: Update Section 5.1.5’s documented parameter variant to
match the implemented ASSOCIATE_GRAMMAR_INSERT contract: document the order
documentURI, entryType, bindingType, identifier, targetURI, and uriValue. Keep
the argument order in the registerCommands call unchanged.
- Line 490: Update addToValueToSettingArray to return and await the workspace
configuration update so failures propagate. Await it in both catalog flows,
including selectExistingCatalogFlow, and on failure show an error and stop the
flow before proceeding with an unregistered catalog.
- Line 461: Check the boolean result of workspace.applyEdit in the catalog
binding flow and show a warning if the edit is rejected, so the user is informed
when the XML document remains unbound.
- Line 608: Check the result of workspace.applyEdit(workEdits) and return
immediately if the catalog edit is rejected. Do this before saving the catalog
document or calling bindWithCatalogEntry, keeping this check separate from the
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Hi Angelo, I tested the catalog wizard with DTD and XSD, and the main flow works well. The catalog is created, entries are added, and the binding works through the catalog.

Two things I noticed:

When I add a new entry through the wizard, the DOCTYPE gets the full file:///Users/... path. When I pick an existing entry, it gets just “note.dtd”, which matches the design doc.

Once a catalog with entries exists, the “Which catalog” menu has no “Select existing catalog...” option, so I can’t add an entry to another existing catalog file.

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Outside diff Handle errors thrown by catalogBindingFlow.

195-197: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle errors thrown by catalogBindingFlow.

The existing try/catch starts after the local and remote selection steps and covers only the standard and file-association binding calls. The Catalog entry call is outside that error boundary. A rejection from workspace.fs.writeFile in createCatalogFlow or from workspace.getConfiguration().update(..., ConfigurationTarget.Workspace) in addToValueToSettingArray can therefore escape the unawaited command handler without user feedback. In createCatalogFlow, the catalog file is written before the configuration update, so the file can remain unregistered when the update fails.

Wrap the call and report the error.

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   if (uriType.label === 'Catalog entry') {
-    await catalogBindingFlow(documentURI, languageClient);
+    try {
+      await catalogBindingFlow(documentURI, languageClient);
+    } catch (error) {
+      window.showErrorMessage('Error during catalog grammar binding: ' + error.message);
+    }
     return;

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src/commands/registerCommands.ts-556-559: 1

556-559: Minor · Potential issue · Quick win

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The entry-type picker offers public, system, and uri for every grammar, although the supplied binding design describes DOCTYPE bindings for public/system entries and XSD or RNG bindings for URI entries.

The wizard may create a catalog entry that the association command cannot turn into a valid binding for that grammar.

This can occur when: A user chooses public for an XSD, or uri for a DTD.

src/commands/registerCommands.ts-519-519: 1

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selectExistingCatalogFlow registers any selected .xml file before checking that it is an XML catalog or that an entry can be added, and does not undo registration when addition fails.

An invalid path remains in xml.catalogs, potentially causing subsequent catalog listing or resolution errors.

This can occur when: A user selects an ordinary XML document or an invalid catalog in the file dialog.

src/commands/registerCommands.ts-490-500: 1

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createCatalogFlow treats CREATE_CATALOG's successful result as text to encode and write, while the supplied design specifies a CreateFile plus TextDocumentEdit result. If the server returns those operations, the fallback is not entered and their object representation is written instead of a catalog.

The newly registered catalog file contains invalid XML, and adding entries or resolving bindings through it fails.

This can occur when: A successful catalog-creation command returns the edit operations described in the design.

src/commands/registerCommands.ts-320-322: 1

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Converting the server's TextDocumentEdit into an unversioned WorkspaceEdit discards its document-version constraint; a concurrent edit may make the returned ranges stale.

The binding text can be inserted at the wrong position or replace unrelated XML.

This can occur when: The XML document changes after the server computes an association edit but before workspace.applyEdit applies it.


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- Around line 332-338: Serialize calls to addToValueToSettingArray by queuing
each read-modify-write operation in a shared in-process chain, ensuring each
read begins only after the preceding workspace update completes and preventing
concurrent additions from overwriting one another.
- Line 627: In the catalog update flow, check catalogDoc.isDirty after
catalogDoc.save(); if it remains dirty, warn that the catalog entry was not
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const catalogDoc = workspace.textDocuments.find(d => d.uri.toString() === catalogFileUri.toString());
if (catalogDoc) {
await catalogDoc.save();

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sed -n '611,645p' src/commands/registerCommands.ts
rg -n 'save\\(\\):|save\\(\\).*Thenable|parseCatalog|CatalogResolver' node_modules/@types/vscode/index.d.ts src docs/design/BindGrammarViaCatalog.md 2>/dev/null | head -65

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Check the catalog save result before binding the document.

catalogDoc.save() runs after the catalog edit is applied to the editor buffer, but its result is ignored. The applyEdit failure directly above returns early, and the save failure does not. Binding then proceeds, so the XML document can reference a catalog entry that exists only in the unsaved catalog buffer. The entry is then missing from the catalog file on disk.

save() also returns false for a document that was not dirty. Checking isDirty after the save shows whether the entry was persisted.

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--- "a/src/commands/registerCommands.ts"
+++ "b/src/commands/registerCommands.ts"
@@ -622,10 +622,14 @@
         window.showWarningMessage('Failed to apply catalog entry edit.');
         return;
       }
       const catalogDoc = workspace.textDocuments.find(d => d.uri.toString() === catalogFileUri.toString());
       if (catalogDoc) {
         await catalogDoc.save();
+        if (catalogDoc.isDirty) {
+          window.showWarningMessage('Failed to save the catalog file. The catalog entry was not persisted.');
+          return;
+        }
       }
     }
   } catch (error) {
     window.showErrorMessage('Error adding catalog entry: ' + error.message);
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await catalogDoc.save();
await catalogDoc.save();
if (catalogDoc.isDirty) {
window.showWarningMessage('Failed to save the catalog file. The catalog entry was not persisted.');
return;
}
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In the catalog update flow, check catalogDoc.isDirty after catalogDoc.save(); if
it remains dirty, warn that the catalog entry was not persisted and return
before binding proceeds. Preserve the existing flow when the document is clean.

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LGTM, thanks Angelo.

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@angelozerr angelozerr added enhancement New feature or request catalog labels Nov 5, 2026
@angelozerr angelozerr added this to the 0.30.0 milestone Nov 5, 2026
@angelozerr angelozerr moved this to In Progress in Java Tooling Nov 5, 2026
Signed-off-by: azerr <azerr@redhat.com>
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angelozerr force-pushed the bind-grammar-via-catalog branch from 881fbc6 to 9f2d5e5 Compare November 5, 2026 10:14
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