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Stefan Guggisberg commented on JCR-1328:
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as of JCR 1.0.1 (the maintenance release) and the current draft of the JCR 2.0
spec (public review draft), the semantics of Session#itemExists(String) are
defined as follows:
boolean itemExists(String absPath)
Returns true if an item exists at absPath and this Session has read
access to it; otherwise returns false.
A RepositoryException is thrown if absPath is not a well-formed
absolute path.
i'd therefore prefer to keep the current implementation as is.
> Session.itemExists implementation wrong
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> Key: JCR-1328
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1328
> Project: Jackrabbit
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: jackrabbit-core
> Affects Versions: 1.4
> Reporter: Felix Meschberger
> Attachments: JCR-1328.patch
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> IMHO the implementation of the Session.itemExists(String) method is wrong
> when called with a malformed path such as "/a/b/c/*" (note the trailing
> star). According to the spec, the method must return "false" for a malformed
> path like this.
> In reality, the method throws a RepositoryException which is allowed to be
> thrown by the spec "if an error occurrs" (whatever that means). But catching
> this exception means, we cannot handle it: Is it a connection issue or a
> general repository problem ? If so, I cannot do anything about it. It is
> really a path problem, I can do something about it. But how do I know
> (without rebuilding internals) ?
> See also SLING-152 for more info.
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