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Jukka Zitting commented on JCR-1328:
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Good point. I think Session.itemExists() is about the only method in JCR that
explicitly mentions how malformed paths should be handled.
On a more general note, I'd actually prefer to modify all methods that take JCR
paths to treat the referenced item as not found instead of throwing an
exception if given a malformed path. Only modification methods like addNode()
should IMHO throw exceptions on malformed paths. But thats a topic for another
issue.
> Session.itemExists implementation wrong
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> Key: JCR-1328
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1328
> Project: Jackrabbit
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: jackrabbit-core
> Affects Versions: 1.4
> Reporter: Felix Meschberger
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> IMHO the implementation of the Session.itemExists(String) method is wrong
> when called with a malformed path such as "/a/b/c/*" (note the trailing
> star). According to the spec, the method must return "false" for a malformed
> path like this.
> In reality, the method throws a RepositoryException which is allowed to be
> thrown by the spec "if an error occurrs" (whatever that means). But catching
> this exception means, we cannot handle it: Is it a connection issue or a
> general repository problem ? If so, I cannot do anything about it. It is
> really a path problem, I can do something about it. But how do I know
> (without rebuilding internals) ?
> See also SLING-152 for more info.
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