Re[2]: Barracuda: case-insensitive event names?

Hello Christian,

Wow, that's quick work!  Thanks Christian :-)

Jake

Friday, December 13, 2002, 11:10:13 AM, you wrote:

CC> Hi guys,

CC> Well, I've been think about this since Jake suggested it, and while I don't
CC> really see a compelling need for it, I can't really think of a reason NOT to
CC> do it either; in other words, I can't see how implementing it would actually
CC> hurt anything. So I went and spent some time looking at the code to figure
CC> out exactly what would need to be done, and then I tinkered a little bit to
CC> test some ideas, and before I knew it I had it implemented.

CC> So...its there in cvs if you want to try it out. Search for csc_121302.1 to
CC> see what needed to be changed (it was actually very simple to do...all that
CC> needed to occur was to store aliases in lower case, and then to locase
CC> whatever we were searching for as well). I created a test case to verify. If
CC> anyone can think of any reasons NOT to do this, it will be easy to pull the
CC> behavior back out.

CC> Enjoy,
CC> Christian
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
>> Behalf Of Jacob Kjome
>> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 4:32 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Barracuda: case-insensitive event names?
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm just wondering if there is a way to make the event names in a url
>> treated as case-insensitive?  Is that possible currently?  I hadn't
>> really thought about it until now, but if you have an event named
>> something like "MyEvent" and you called it via
>> http://localhost:8080/MyEvent.event, as long as you specified an event
>> interest for that event, you could handle it.  However, what if
>> someone writes it as http://localhost:8080/myevent.event.  Currently,
>> Barracuda doesn't seem to recognize the event as a "MyEvent" even
>> though it is spelled exactly the same way and it is pretty obvious
>> that "MyEvent" is the event meant to get triggered.
>>
>> Is there any way to make events provided via a URL case-insensitive?
>> Unlike case-sensitivity on the file system via running a website on a
>> Unix machine (eg... Index.html -vs- index.html), we should be
>> able to do any mapping we want in the
>> application/event gateway.
>>
>> If we did implement this, would there be any pitfalls to look out for?
>> I can't really see any unless it were possible for Java classes to be
>> named the same thing in the same package with the only difference
>> being case, such as "MyEvent.java" and Myevent.java".  Is that
>> possible on Unix?  It isn't on Windows, that's for sure.
>>
>> The other situation that could bite back is the case where the same
>> named event existed multiple times, but in different packages.  If all
>> those events were registered to be handled by various handlers, which
>> handler would actually get triggered?  However, this is a problem even
>> outside the issue of case-sensitivity, so it is kind of a separate
>> issue.  But now that I bring it up, how would this situation be resolved
>> (other than just being diligent about naming events uniquely)?
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> Jake
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>  Jacob                          mailto:[email protected]
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