Thanx Felix, That's the kind of info I was looking for. I do have a use case related to this but is not an hard issue, so it is not required to change the . restriction. I just could not find why this restriction was there. Thanx for the information.
Alin On 8/8/07, Felix Meschberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Alin, > > The spec of the Configuration Admin Service (section 104.4.2 > Configuration Properties) says, that property names should obey the > syntax production "symbolic-name". This is a dot-separated token list, > where the dot must not be at the start or end and each token only > consists of characters in [0..9a..zA..Z_-]. > > Well, the keyword here is probably "should". The Felix implementation > currently forces this when reading property names and assumes correct > names. This may arguably be debatted. > > If you have a requirement for using names with leading dots or with > names using other characters, feel free to report a JIRA issue. I will > the (try to) fix this issue. > > Regards > Felix > > Am Mittwoch, den 08.08.2007, 17:38 +0300 schrieb Alin Dreghiciu: > > Hi guys, > > I have a question: Is there any restriction on the key of a service > > property, restriction that says that the key should not start with . > (dot)? > > I'm asking this because I'm using the configuration admin and the > > configuration admin is complaining about properties that start with . > when > > restoring the persisted state. > > > > java.io.IOException: Name (.alias_factory_pid) must not start or end > with a > > dot > > at org.apache.felix.cm.file.ConfigurationHandler.readName( > > ConfigurationHandler.java:596) > > at org.apache.felix.cm.file.ConfigurationHandler.nextToken( > > ConfigurationHandler.java:555) > > at org.apache.felix.cm.file.ConfigurationHandler.readInternal( > > ConfigurationHandler.java:263) > > at org.apache.felix.cm.file.ConfigurationHandler.read( > > ConfigurationHandler.java:234) > > at org.apache.felix.cm.file.FilePersistenceManager.load( > > FilePersistenceManager.java:437) > > at org.apache.felix.cm.file.FilePersistenceManager.load( > > FilePersistenceManager.java:375) > > at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.ConfigurationManager.getConfi > guration( > > ConfigurationManager.java:577) > > at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.ConfigurationManager.getConfi > guration( > > ConfigurationManager.java:357) > > at > > org.apache.felix.cm.impl.ConfigurationManager$ManagedS > erviceFactoryUpdate.run > > (ConfigurationManager.java:912) > > at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.UpdateThread.run(UpdateThread.java > :89) > > > > Thanx, > > Alin > >
