On 13/12/2008, at 3:48 PM, Chris Anderson wrote:
I think opening up the character classes of the db and design doc
names like this is OK, as it won't effect people who use the current
permitted character set. There's no reason this would not work
alongside the aforementioned design and attachment path slash rules.
Agreed. I still think a special rule for doc ids starting with '_'
isn't a great idea, but obviously I'm in the minority on that, and
it's a trivial issue compared to restricting names as is currently done.
Antony, I think you'll find that once you've written the appropriate
JavaScript tests for this feature, it'll be hard to resist adding
escaping to the Erlang db-name validation code.
Actually, the name validation would merely consist of 'not-empty'.
The gating issue is getting agreement about the on-disk structure,
because the key change is breaking the name <=> filename equivalence
assumption.
Antony Blakey
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