Github user geomacy commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-server/pull/737#discussion_r124058288 --- Diff: core/src/main/java/org/apache/brooklyn/core/catalog/internal/BasicBrooklynCatalog.java --- @@ -855,24 +893,50 @@ private boolean attemptType(String key, CatalogItemType candidateCiType) { } // first look in collected items, if a key is given String type = (String) item.get("type"); - String version = null; - if (CatalogUtils.looksLikeVersionedId(type)) { - version = CatalogUtils.getVersionFromVersionedId(type); - type = CatalogUtils.getSymbolicNameFromVersionedId(type); - } + if (type!=null && key!=null) { for (CatalogItemDtoAbstract<?,?> candidate: itemsDefinedSoFar) { if (candidateCiType == candidate.getCatalogItemType() && (type.equals(candidate.getSymbolicName()) || type.equals(candidate.getId()))) { - if (version==null || version.equals(candidate.getVersion())) { - // matched - exit - catalogItemType = candidateCiType; - planYaml = candidateYaml; - resolved = true; - return true; + // matched - exit + catalogItemType = candidateCiType; + planYaml = candidateYaml; + resolved = true; + return true; + } + } + } + { + // legacy routine; should be the same as above code added in 0.12 because: + // if type is symbolic_name, the type will match below, and version will be null so any version allowed to match --- End diff -- I'm afraid I don't follow this - is it the case that a type which is just a `symbolic_name` will be taken care of by line 900 above (so you actually mean "the type will match above" on this line i.e. at line 900); but how is the next case handled, where type is of form `symbolic_name:version`? When you say `the id will match`, where does that happen?
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