enabledCategories doesn't work

Development
1

I’m running an offline server with java -cp languagetool-server.jar org.languagetool.server.HTTPServer --port 8081 --allow-origin --config ~/.languageserver.cfg. The config file points to a second config file with the following lines:

disabledRules.en-US=THANK_YOU_MUCH
autoDetect=false
disabledCategories.en-US=
serverPort=8081
useGUIConfig=false
enabledRules.en-US=ABUNDANCE
enabledCategories=PLAIN_ENGLISH

As expected:

  • “thank you much” does not produce an error
  • “abundance” does produce an error

Unexpected:

  • “accomplish” does not produce an error despite being a rule within PLAIN_ENGLISH

Removing default="off" from the PLAIN_ENGLISH category produces the expected result.

I’m concluding that there’s a bug with enabledCategories? I’ve tried this with several categories and haven’t been able to get them to work. Can anyone reproduce this issue?

2

Maybe you’re mixing up the .cfg for the stand-alone/LibreOffice LT and the server configuration. The server configuration doesn’t know about enabledCategories, but it has a command-line paramater --enablecategories. There’s also the HTTP parameter enabledCategories.

3

If I want to enable specific categories on the server without editing the XML files, what would be the best way to do that?

4

You can set the enabledCategories parameter with each HTTP request you send (API doc).

5

In my case, I’m often accessing the server from plugins (e.g a Chrome extension) and don’t have a way to set enabled categories with each HTTP request? Are there any other options?

6

You could try useGUIConfig=true to make LT use the LibreOffice config file. Not sure if that actually works, though.