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

[Matthew Wringe]

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.

> Thomas.
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