Yes we did discuss adding hyphen in Geode, and we discussed actually checking during create.
-- Mike Stolz Principal Engineer, GemFire Product Manager Mobile: 631-835-4771 On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Kevin Duling <kdul...@pivotal.io> wrote: > I found a thread from March of this year where this was discussed and '-' > is also included in that list. > > Shouldn't the creation of a region with an invalid character raise an > exception? I'm finding that I can create and list regions with a variety > of non-alphanumeric characters. But I can only destroy a subset of those. > > It appears to be because some are created with quotes around the region > name. > > E.g., > > service=Region, name=/good, type=Member > service=Region, name="/not*good", type=Member > > The name lookup fails in the Destroy call. The rule that applied the > quotes for /not*good during Create isn't applied in Destroy > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Michael Stolz <mst...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > > The only characters that should be used in Region names are > > ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890_ > > > > -- > > Mike Stolz > > Principal Engineer, GemFire Product Manager > > Mobile: 631-835-4771 > > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Kevin Duling <kdul...@pivotal.io> > wrote: > > > > > I'm working on a bug where it is not possible to delete a region that > > has a > > > hyphen in it. E.g., the region was created with: > > > > > > create region --name=not-good --type=REPLICATE > > > > > > I've a solution done, but see this as an opportunity to add a test for > > > other special characters. Is there a list of valid and invalid > > characters > > > for a region name? > > > > > >
