[Zope] Trailing spaces in ids?

[Charlie Reiman]

What makes you say you can't have spaces in object ids? It works fine for
me. Sure, they are inconvenient but you can create them all you want.

Should ZODB allow trailing spaces? Absolutely yes. Should the ZMI allow you
to create such objects? Probably not. Should internal APIs strip those
spaces when you list them? No, never. File a bug, but only on the last one.

I think Zope is essentially acting like Unix here. You can put whatever the
heck you want in a filename (except for '/'). You'll just have a really hard
time using the file if you use spaces, control characters, wildcards, etc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
> Howard Hansen
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 12:12 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Trailing spaces in ids?
>
>
> Since Zope doesn't allow spaces in object ids (a good thing), how
> come when
> I paste an object id into the interface, it allows a trailing space and
> incorporates it into the object's id?
>
> I've inserted DTML Documents, CMF Sites, MailHosts, RDF Summaries -- all
> manner of objects with spaces at the end and Zope accepts them just fine.
> Try it yourself!  It gives interesting errors when you try to view those
> objects, but they do exist.
>
> Shouldn't the ZODB raise an error when _setObject gets called?
> If that's a
> hard change, then at least have the ZMI not strip the space off when
> building the list of objects in a folder.  This is tough enough to debug
> without Zope conspiring against me!
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Howard Hansen
> http://howardsmusings.com
>
>
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