On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 01:52:35PM -0400, Chris St. Pierre wrote: > We have proposed that the allowed characters for all resource names in Nova > (flavors, aggregates, etc.) be expanded to all printable unicode characters > and horizontal spaces: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/119741 > > Currently, the only allowed characters in most resource names are > alphanumeric, space, and [.-_]. > > We have proposed this change for two principal reasons: > > 1. We have customers who have migrated data forward since Essex, when no > restrictions were in place, and thus have characters in resource names that > are disallowed in the current version of OpenStack. This is only likely to > be useful to people migrating from Essex or earlier, since the current > restrictions were added in Folsom. > > 2. It's pretty much always a bad idea to add unnecessary restrictions > without a good reason. While we don't have an immediate need to use, for > example, the ever-useful http://codepoints.net/U+1F4A9 in a flavor name, > it's hard to come up with a reason people *shouldn't* be allowed to use it. > > That said, apparently people have had a need to not be allowed to use some > characters, but it's not clear why: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/977187 > > So I guess if anyone knows any reason why these printable characters should > not be joined in holy resource naming, speak now or forever hold your peace.
I would consider any place where there is a user specified, free form string intended for end user consumption should be totally unrestricted in the characters it allows. To arbitrarily restrict the user is a bug. If there are current technical reasons for the restriction we should look at what we must do to resolve them. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev