[rules-dev] JIRA JBRULES-1290

[Michael Neale]

Hi Jervis - I might but the comments on the actual JIRA for this,
easier to track.

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Jervis Liu <jliu at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi team,
>
> I am currently working on JIRA
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-1290 (BRMS does not allow rule
> names to contain an apostrophe character ( ' )). The problem is caused by
> using rule name inputted by users as the name to add a node, see below (in
> PackageItem.java):
>
> Node rulesFolder = this.node.getNode( ASSET_FOLDER_NAME );
> ruleNode = rulesFolder.addNode( assetName, AssetItem.RULE_NODE_TYPE_NAME);
>
> The javax.jcr.Node.addNode(String relPath, String primaryNodeTypeName)
> method will through RepositoryException if the relPath parameter contains
> apostrophe character ( ' ). Had a quick check with JSR-170, it is true that
> apostrophe character ( ' ) is not allowed in a path name.  Section 4.6:
>
> char ::= nonspace | ' '
> nonspace ::= (* Any Unicode character except: '/', ':', '[', ']', '*', ''',
> '"', '|' or any whitespace
> character *)
>
> There are two possible ways I can think of to have this fixed, none of them
> are ideal though.
>
> a. We valid the rule name inputted by users, the validation rule is in line
> with JSR-170. This approach is not ideal because a rule named "Jervis' rule"
> is perfect valid in my opinion.
>
> b. Somehow we transform the rule name to sth else if it is not a valid
> relative path according to JSR-170. This approach may require a data
> structure somewhere to store the original rule name and transformed relative
> path name. As I am pretty new to Drools, I am not sure how to best get this
> done.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions are highly welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Jervis Liu
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