Feature request [warning for invalid references before publishing]

Question

It's only possible to find out about Invalid references when trying to publish from the collaboration branch.

Would it be possible to have some kind of validation/warning prior to publishing?

Example:

This error appears when one tries do publish. The cause is having an invalid reference in a linked service as such:
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The provided link is invalid, however the test connection functionality succeeds.

Answer 1

Hello @Alexandre Silva ,

Thanks for the question and using MS Q&A platform.

In the above sample, I see that the test connection is successful but it is failed when pushing. The test connection is successful because the current validation is only for the Base URL as mentioned in this doc: Azure Key Vault linked service. It only expects the base URL to be a valid host name and if it is resolved, then the test connection is successful but if the host name not resolved then the connection fails. Event though you provide the Relative URL it will only validate for the base URL while testing the connection and hence warning/error is not displayed.

For eg:

{  
    "name": "AzureKeyVaultLinkedService",  
    "properties": {  
        "type": "AzureKeyVault",  
        "typeProperties": {  
            "baseUrl": "https://<azureKeyVaultName>.vault.azure.net"  
        }  
    }  
}  

Where as coming to REST connector, there is a separate section to provide Relative URL while configuring the REST dataset and you can provide Base URL while configuring the Rest linked service.

But if you still have concern about the improvement, I would recommend you to please provide feedback in IDEAS forum so that we can take it forward to discuss with the relevant product owners. Please do share the feedback link once it is posted.

Here is the IDEAS forum: https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/forum/1219ec2d-6c26-ec11-b6e6-000d3a4f032c

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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