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Joan Touzet commented on COUCHDB-317:
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I disagree, that changes semantics. Don't try and read the user's mind...I
understand trying to be friendly, but that means absolutely everywhere where a
DbName is not found, we could try and number of arbitrary transformations (What
about more than one leading slash? Or an escaped leading slash?) to eventually
get to something reasonable.
But if we accept it, then it's possible the user thinks that ///foobar is a
valid DbName and uses it in a bunch of other places, potentially in application
logic as well. That allows inaccuracy and problems to bleed through to lots of
other areas.
> Badmatch error if _replicate target starts with slash
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: COUCHDB-317
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-317
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Replication
> Affects Versions: 0.9.1
> Environment: svn r761188
> Reporter: Brian Candler
> Assignee: Joan Touzet
> Priority: Trivial
> Fix For: 1.3
>
> Attachments: replicate-slash-fix.patch, replicate-slash-fix-v2.patch
>
>
> Giving a replication source or target which starts with a slash gives an
> Erlang barf error. (The wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Replication
> said that this slash was necessary. I will fix the wiki, but the error is
> still unsightly)
> $ curl -X POST -d '{"source":"/foo","target":"/bar"}'
> http://127.0.0.1:5984/_replicate
> {"error":"case_clause","reason":"{error,{{{badmatch,{error,illegal_database_name}},\n
> [{couch_rep,init,1},\n {gen_server,init_it,6},\n
> {proc_lib,init_p,5}]},\n
> {child,undefined,\"7898c2bfbbcf8adbb305371e6c3c949e\",\n
> {gen_server,start_link,\n [couch_rep,\n
> [\"7898c2bfbbcf8adbb305371e6c3c949e\",\n
> {local,<<\"/foo\">>,{user_ctx,null,[<<\"_admin\">>]}},\n
> {local,<<\"/bar\">>,\n
> {user_ctx,null,[<<\"_admin\">>]}}],\n []]},\n
> transient,1,worker,\n [couch_rep]}}}"}
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