Here's the PR <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/10837> that bumps
Jetty and the Servlet API and reproduces #10338
<https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/10338> but it unfortunately
requires to be built/executed with JDK17.

On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 2:59 PM Eduard Tudenhöfner <etudenhoef...@apache.org>
wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> The REST spec
> <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/blob/6319712b612b724fedbc5bed41942ac3426ffe48/open-api/rest-catalog-open-api.yaml#L225>
> currently uses *%1F* as the UTF-8 encoded namespace separator for
> multi-part namespaces.
> This causes issues <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/10338>,
> since it's a control character
> <https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/category/Cc> and the Servlet spec
> <https://jakarta.ee/specifications/servlet/6.0/jakarta-servlet-spec-6.0.html#uri-path-canonicalization>
>  can
> reject such characters.
>
> I'm proposing to replace *%1F* with a different character that isn't
> problematic (such as *%2E*) and also add some backwards compatible
> namespace decoding logic to *RESTUtil* so that older clients sending *%1F*
> can still do so.
>
> PS: I also investigated why *%1F* doesn't fail in *TestRESTCatalog* and
> it's because we're using  Jetty 9.x and the javax.servlet API 4.0 (instead
> of 6.x). I'll open a separate PR to upgrade Jetty and use jakarta.servlet
> API 6.x, which will reproduce the issue with *%1F* being used as the
> namespace separator.
>
> Eduard
>
>
>

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