Re: [Subclipse-users] SVNClientAdapter and URLs paths that contain square brackets ([ and ])

This is fixed in the trunk version of SVNClientAdapter that is part of
Subclipse 1.8.x.

http://subclipse.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1298

http://subclipse.tigris.org/source/browse/subclipse/trunk/svnClientAdapter/src/main/org/tigris/subversion/svnclientadapter/SVNUrl.java?r1=5130&r2=3553

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Al Habte <aghabte_at_rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
> SVNClientAdapter Version:  1.6.12 (bundle version)
> Client OS: Windows-7
>
> Attempting to get the SVN log information, of a URL path that contains square brackets ([ and ]) fails with "malformed or the scheme or host or path is missing". Here is the piece of code that shows
>
> SVNUrl currentURL = new SVNUrl("http://bpsvn/sandbox/trunk/foo[bar].txt");
> final ISVNClientAdapter svnClient = getSVNClient(currentURL, SVNRevision.HEAD);
> svnClient.getLogMessages(currentURL, SVNRevision.HEAD, SVNRevision.HEAD, new SVNRevision.Number(0), false, true, 0);
>
> The above code raises an exception with the following error message:
>
> org.tigris.subversion.svnclientadapter.SVNClientException: org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: Bad URL passed to RA layer
> svn: URL 'http://bpsvn/sandbox/trunk/foo[bar].txt' is malformed or the scheme or host or path is missing
>
>
> Similarly, the getInfo() method below also fails and raises an exception, with a different error message, for the same URL:
>
> ISVNClientAdapter svnClient = getSVNClient(new SVNUrl("http://bpsvn/sandbox/trunk/foo[bar].txt"),
>                                SVNRevision.HEAD);
>  svnClient.getInfo(new SVNUrl("http://bpsvn/sandbox/trunk/foo[bar].txt"));
>
> This getInfo() method generates the following exception error message :
>
> org.tigris.subversion.svnclientadapter.SVNClientException: org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: Bogus URL
> svn: URL 'http://bpsvn/sandbox/trunk/foo[bar].txt' is not properly URI-encoded
>
> However, both of these methods, getInfo() and getLogMessages(), handle the following URLs successfully:
>
> http://bpsvn/sandbox/trunk/foo(bar).txt
> http://bpsvn/sandbox/trunk/foo{bar}.txt
>
> There seems to be a limitation in what special characters SVNClientAdapter can handle in a path.  Is this a correct assessment? Is there a description on what special characters one can use or should avoid in a path?
>
> Thanks,
> Al Habte
>
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