hi, So i'm just taking a look at what appears quite a simple bug : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8165199 , at least the fix is simple to make UUID.fromString(str) strictly uuid bnf compliant. However, I wanted to get community opinion on potential "compliance" issues with doing such a fix? As it currently stands the method will allow any string up to 36 characters containing 4 "-"'s, eg: this would be valid abc-123-123-123-abc123 whereas a properly formatted UUID string should be hex values of lengths 8-4-4-4-12.
There are obvious implications in increasing the validation that it could break some existing applications that were either knowing or un-knowingly specifying the strings in a non-spec way... am I just being paranoid..!? Thoughts? Thanks Andrew Andrew Leonard Java Runtimes Development IBM Hursley IBM United Kingdom Ltd Phone internal: 245913, external: 01962 815913 internet email: andrew_m_leon...@uk.ibm.com Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU
