Here is the page of the documentation on region naming: http://docs-geode-develop.cfapps.io/docs/basic_config/data_regions/region_naming.html
I'm guessing that a JIRA for also including a dash was not implemented. When you find the JIRA number, please post it on this thread. On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Kevin Duling <kdul...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Do you know if a Jira ticket was opened on it? I'm currently working on > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-1615 and would like to link to > it. > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Michael Stolz <mst...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > > 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? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
