False positive detection of duplicate ids across multiple view.xml files

[bbogovich-sap]

The Ui5 Language Assistant is reading all files in a workspace when validating that controls have unique ids, resulting in many false positive conflicts. Having the same id in multiple view files is legal and extremely common; there is no conflict in actual execution because the view id is prefixed to the control ids.

Steps to reproduce

In a project with more than one view, add a button with id "btnOk" in both views. VSCode will highlight both files as having an id conflict. Also reproducible if two unrelated projects are in the same workspace.

Expected behavior

ID validation will occur within the same file, or at least within the same repository.

[bbogovich-sap]

Can close, just discovered there is a configuration setting to change the behavior. This should probably be the default setting, every dev on the product team that tries using the language assistant disables it because of the id validation.

[MN-public]

@bbogovich-sap Thanks for your feedback. I can understand that your use case requires checks within the single file only and you treat the checks for repetitive IDs outside of the file as false positives. However, please understand that we also want to cover other use cases, such as in this enhancement request #646, where the uniqueness across the whole project is required. This is the reason we provide it as a setting and everyone can configure the checks based on their needs. Hope this explains our decision and it is acceptable for you.
Best Regards
Mariana