Re: Assertion Failure dialogs appear when attempting to open repository with bad URL

Branko Čibej wrote on Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 09:01:01 +0200:
> On 10.06.2015 19:34, Stefan Kueng wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10.06.2015 19:06, Bert Huijben wrote:
> >> Hi Dean,
> >>
> >> There is not much we can do about this. The Subversion apis require that
> >> you pass canonical urls, while the client (TortoiseSVN) that you use
> >> doesn’t canonicalize the url before passing it to this api.
> >
> > And that's what the svn_dirent_canonicalize() and
> > svn_uri_canonicalize() APIs are for.
> > Problem is: in that case they don't work:
> >
> > $ svn list file:///c:Software/SourceCodeRepository
> >
> > try that with an svn build from the 1.9.x branch and you'll get an
> > exception.
>
> I think we can all agree that crashing in a function like that is a bad
> idea, but there's not much we can do here. API users should check their
> input for validity.

So every call to svn_uri_canonicalize() should be followed by an "if
svn_uri_is_canonical()" test?

At the very least, that should be documented.

I'd consider having the function promise that the return value either
passes _is_canonical() or is equal to NULL.
Received on 2015-06-11 12:56:09 CEST