Github user harshach commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/303#issuecomment-61668317
@NareshKosgi I am -1 on current PR. Please look at the @Parth-Brahmbhatt
suggested approach.
Also lets not modify the existing examples to test it. It will be great if
you can add unit tests to check if the different topology names are valid or
not. Thanks.
@clockfly special characters seems to have no issue. Please check the
attached image. I was able to submit ./bin/storm jar
examples/storm-starter/storm-starter-topologies-0.9.3-rc2-SNAPSHOT.jar
storm.starter.WordCountTopology "word#&count)("

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