Re: Can't create folder with square brackets

Mark Phippard <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:07:41 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.subclipse.user
Message-ID <CAHFaGCoJi1kgZ8Udd+Ra+5aehJhzpKNFrEkdsFBSypaCXwYXDQ@mail.gmail.com>
We tried techniques like those once but they are encoding the URL the way a
browser form POST wants to do it, not the way Subversion expects it.  I
will try to find the RFC that Subversion is following and see if I can find
something better, but we have done this in the past.  We  obviously would
prefer to call a method someone else wrote that does this correctly.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:02 AM, David Balažic <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  Maybe some of the possibilities mentioned here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/16226168/822870
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>
>
> David Balažic
>
> Software Engineer
>
> www.comtrade.com
>
>
>
> *From:* Mark Phippard [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* 24. October 2014 13:12
>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Subclipse-users] Can't create folder with square brackets
> *Importance:* Low
>
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> Is it not pretty clear already that is what we have tried to do? Find one
> better and let us know.
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> On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:05 AM, David Balažic <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>  Yes, there it reproduces for me too. (trying to create a folder in the
> »SVN Repository Exploring« perspective)
>
>
>
> I updated to subclipse 1.10.6 and now the characters [ and ] work, but
> others still don't, like # or %.
>
>
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> I suggest using an existing encoding method instead of reinventing the
> wheel, because »home made« solutions are always full of problems like these.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> David Balažic
>
> Software Engineer
>
> www.comtrade.com
>
>
>
> *From:* Stephen Elsemore [mailto:[email protected]
> <[email protected]>]
> *Sent:* 23. October 2014 16:07
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Subclipse-users] Can't create folder with square brackets
> *Importance:* Low
>
>
>
> I was able to reproduce the problem by right clicking a folder in the SVN
> Repositories view, selecting New -> New remote folder, and then trying to
> add a folder with square brackets in the name.  I got:
>
> org.apache.subversion.javahl.ClientException: Bogus URL svn: URL
> 'myurlwithbrackets' is not properly URI-encoded
>
> I got similar errors if I tried to show history for a folder or file with
> square brackets in the name.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Mark Phippard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:45 AM, David Balažic <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>
>
>  I was curious and tried to reproduce the problem, but could not.
>
> I have Eclipse Kepler SR-2 (v4.3.2) with:
>
>   Subclipse (Required)   1.10.5
>
>   Subversion Client Adapter (Required) 1.10.1
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>   Subversion JavaHL Native Library Adapter        1.8.10
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>
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> With repository on VisualSVN Server 3.0.0
>
>
>
> I created , updated, viewed the log of a folder with sqaure brackets in
> its name but everything worked without error.
>
> Does the error happen in some special circumstances?
>
>
>
>  Steve fixed this before I ever tried it.  Not sure what he did to test
> it.  The OP mentions creating a folder.  Did you try doing it against the
> remote repository?  It is possible you do not see this if you do it locally
> and then just commit the folder.
>
>
>
> In general, when a URL is passed to the SVN API it has to be URI-encoded.
> So, as an example, we have to convert spaces to %20.  Any character that
> has to be converted to a %xx value has to be done this way.  We handle this
> in the toString() method of our SVNUrl class:
>
>
>
> *public* String toString() {
>
>        *// The URI class will throw Exception if there are spaces in the URL, but it seems*
>
>        *// to handle other classes OK.  I tested with @ + and Unicode characters.  It leaves*
>
>        *// the @ and + alone and converts Unicode to %nn.  It is possible there are other*
>
>        *// characters we need to replace here besides space.*
>
>        String s = get().replace(" ", "%20").replace("[", "%5B").replace("]","%5D");
>
>               *try* {
>
>                       URI u = *new* URI(s);
>
>                       *return* u.toASCIIString();
>
>               } *catch* (URISyntaxException e) {
>
>                       *return* s;
>
>               }
>
>     }
>
>
>
> So most of the work happens in the URI.toASCIIString() method that we
> call.  As the comment notes, this method does not convert spaces (and
> possibly other characters).  I assume that Steve confirmed that it does not
> convert brackets and so he added those to the manual exceptions.  I have
> not checked if that is right or wrong, but that is what is needed here in
> general.
>
>
>
> SVN itself handles all of this fine internally.  The only issue is when we
> have to directly provide one of these URL's in an API call.
>
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
>


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Thanks

Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/

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