Re: [gatein-dev] Portal and page names and case sensitivity

I created the related issue on your behalf https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/EXOJCR-725

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Nicolas Filotto <nicolas.filotto(a)exoplatform.com&gt; wrote: > > Thomas, could you please a create an issue in the JCR project? > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Nicolas Filotto > <nicolas.filotto(a)exoplatform.com&gt; wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Thomas Heute <theute(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>> >>> On 05/11/2010 10:38 AM, Nicolas Filotto wrote: >>> >>> According to this blog post >>> http://mysqldatabaseadministration.blogspot.com/2006/09/case-sensitive-my... >>> for MySQL, we can specify a collation at database creation >>> >>> It shows at *table* creation ;) >> >> What do you mean? >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Thomas Heute <theute(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 05/11/2010 10:25 AM, Nicolas Filotto wrote: >>>> >>>> Unfortunately, changing from  VARCHAR to  VARBINARY is just impossible >>>> at this stage since several versions of eXo JCR 1.12 have already been >>>> released and those version would then be incompatible. Moreover, I'm pretty >>>> sure that it will create side effects more painful than case sensitivity >>>> issues. >>>> The only way to solve this problem is to specify clearly in the doc >>>> that the database must be case insensitive. >>>> >>>> Can this be set at DB level ? I thought it was at table level ? And >>>> since tables are created by JCR it's a bit tricky. >>>> >>>> We're going without any change, it's not as bad as I originally thought >>>> it was, I'm still curious about the possibilities though. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Matthew Wringe <mwringe(a)redhat.com&gt; >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 19:16 -0400, Matthew Wringe wrote: >>>>> > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 22:49 +0200, Thomas Heute wrote: >>>>> > > >>>>> > > The great MySQL and MSSQL made that choice that tables (by >>>>> > > default) are >>>>> > > made case insensitive. >>>>> > > Meaning that 'foobar' is the same as 'FooBar'. >>>>> > > Today if you create a portal or a page 'toto' and then 'tOtO' it >>>>> > > will >>>>> > > work for other databases but for MySQL or MSSQL it will fail. >>>>> > >>>>> > Page names that vary only in case work fine for me with MySQL, but I >>>>> > do >>>>> > experience the problem with portal names. >>>>> > >>>>> > > We should prevent to have 2 portal names that are the same (case >>>>> > > insensitive). We can't do a simple JCR query (AFAIK) to verify if >>>>> > > 2 >>>>> > > portal names are the same (case insensitive), unless we try and >>>>> > > catch an >>>>> > > error. But the error would only happen for those 2 and would >>>>> > > potentially >>>>> > > make a migration from 1 DB to another difficult since they would >>>>> > > react >>>>> > > differently. >>>>> > >>>>> > The problem is that we have a field name which as part of it >>>>> > contains >>>>> > the portal name, and MySQL is converting this into lower case. This >>>>> > doesn't actually store the portal name, and its not used as a key >>>>> > (nor >>>>> > is it set as unique). >>>>> > >>>>> > I created a quick hack in the jcr that would allow for it to get >>>>> > multiple values back from the sql query and check them to return >>>>> > only >>>>> > the correct result. >>>>> > >>>>> > This appears to work, and it gives the correct error messages about >>>>> > portals existing or not. BUT, there is some unique index restraint >>>>> > setup >>>>> > somewhere which is preventing me from saving the data back to the >>>>> > database :( >>>>> > >>>>> > > The other option is to transform all ids to lowercase before >>>>> > > storing in >>>>> > > Database so we are safe with all database. I actually think it >>>>> > > would be >>>>> > > a good practice as those ids appear in the URL which are usually >>>>> > > all in >>>>> > > lowercase. >>>>> > >>>>> > The urls are not in lowercase though, if we want to access the >>>>> > 'classic' >>>>> > or 'CLASSIC' portal, we can't have the url all in lowercase. >>>>> > >>>>> > > Or if anyone think about any other option ? >>>>> > >>>>> > Is there not some sort of case sensitive mode in MySQL that we can >>>>> > have >>>>> > as a requirement for use with GateIn? The user already needs to >>>>> > setup >>>>> > and configure the db anyways. >>>>> >>>>> We can easily change this by making the table use VARBINARY for the >>>>> field instead of VARCHAR. There is a jira for here >>>>> https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBEPP-334 with a patch attached. >>>>> Someone working on the JCR will need to make this change. >>>>> >>>>> > >>>>> > > Thomas. >>>>> > > _______________________________________________ >>>>> > > gatein-dev mailing list >>>>> > > gatein-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>>>> > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/gatein-dev >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>>> > gatein-dev mailing list >>>>> > gatein-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>>>> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/gatein-dev >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> gatein-dev mailing list >>>>> gatein-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>>>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/gatein-dev >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Nicolas Filotto >>>> JCR Product Manager >>>> Project Manager >>>> eXo Platform SAS >>>> nicolas.filotto(a)exoplatform.com >>>> +33 (0)6 31 32 92 19 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Nicolas Filotto >>> JCR Product Manager >>> Project Manager >>> eXo Platform SAS >>> nicolas.filotto(a)exoplatform.com >>> +33 (0)6 31 32 92 19 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Nicolas Filotto >> JCR Product Manager >> Project Manager >> eXo Platform SAS >> nicolas.filotto(a)exoplatform.com >> +33 (0)6 31 32 92 19 > > > > -- > Nicolas Filotto > JCR Product Manager > Project Manager > eXo Platform SAS > nicolas.filotto(a)exoplatform.com > +33 (0)6 31 32 92 19 -- Nicolas Filotto JCR Product Manager Project Manager eXo Platform SAS nicolas.filotto(a)exoplatform.com +33 (0)6 31 32 92 19 _______________________________________________ gatein-dev mailing list gatein-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/gatein-dev