[Feature Request]: Check syntax of Environment configuration files
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Description
### What would you like to happen?
In the Hop GUI, when choosing "Select" in an Environment to add a JSON environment config file, you get no indication if the content is syntactically correct. Only after "Edit" you see if the JSON was correctly loaded.
I think in case of JSON configuration files that are added via "Select", they should NOT be loaded to the environment at all when the syntax is _wrong_, and should not be kept in the list of "Configuration files" secion in the "Environment Properties" dialog.
Even worse, in case it's a _valid_ JSON syntax, but the key names are wrong (e.g "valuee" instead of "value", see below), no error or warning is displayed at all, the value remains simply null / empty.
E.g.:
```
{
"variables": [{
"name": "MY_VAR",
"valuee": "my_value",
"description": ""
}
]
}
```
Also the reload of the project works without error/warning.
Similarly, when adding a JSON file to an environment via "--environment-config-files" of "hop-conf.sh" you see an error in the log output (in case of wrong JSON syntax), but still the JSON will be added to the environment.

### Issue Priority
Priority: 3
### Issue Component
Component: Hop Gui, Component: Hop Config
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by tracing the Hop GUI Environment Properties flow from "Select" and "Edit", then inspect how hop-conf.sh handles --environment-config-files. Define validation behavior for malformed JSON and unrecognized configuration keys, and verify that invalid files are rejected rather than loaded or retained, with clear errors in both paths.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, shell
- Domain
- cli, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100