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John E. Conlon

2006-05-31, 7:11 pm

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 21:14 -0400, Alex Karasulu wrote:
> John E. Conlon wrote:
>
> Yeah there seems to be some really fishy bug lurking around with case
> sensitivity and the manner in which entries are added/modified.
>
> I agree 100% that this issue must be nixed. The server has to return
> back what you put in. The present situation is unacceptable; I should
> have nixed this a while back.
>
> Hmm you should never depend on the case of attribute type identifiers.
> You must always presume they can come in any form so you must normalize
> them for case.


>From the Configuration Admin R4 spec (page 70-432):


"The name or key of a property must always be a String object, and is
not case sensitive during look up, but must preserve the original case."

So is it correct in other words to say - "Normalized (for searches) but
preserved at the interface"?
>
> This is on the top of my list if someone else does not beat me to it.
>
>



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