java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: classpath

Question

I am trying to import the xsd schema from local drive using schemalocation classpath in spring. I added the required file in the classpath and added the reference of this fi

Answer 1

You shouldn't be messing around with other locations and use the defaults. For Spring Social Facebook you should use http://www.springframework.org/schema/social/spring-social-facebook-1.1.xsd or preferably the version less one http://www.springframework.org/schema/social/spring-social-facebook.xsd.

Spring will always first load the xsd from the jars from the classpath. Spring ships with a custom EntityResolver, the PluggableSchemaResolver which uses the different spring.schemas files in the META-INF directory of Spring jar files.

The only reasons to get an error like you get (and why you try to work around it) is

1. You haven't included the spring-social-facebook needed dependencies
2. You have included the wrong spring-social-facebook dependencies
3. You are using incompatible Spring and Spring Social versions.

I would bet on option 2 not having all the 1.1.0 versions of spring-social-facebook but mixing versions of jars.