I have no objection, though it may be no harder just to escape the newlines. I agree it is probably better to start strict if we aren't sure.
-Jay On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are a few issues related to topic names. First, we have some topic > specific metrics and jmx bean name has certain restrictions (e.g., no space > allowed and maybe others). Second, in 0.8, we have a file that stores high > watermarks. It's a simple text file and expects 1 line per topic/partition. > If topic name has '\r' or '\n', it could mess up the format of the file. A > simple solution is to restrict topic names to ASCII alpha-numeric > characters (plus _ and -) in 0.8. We can try to relax it in the future. > Anybody has concerns with this? > > Thanks, > > Jun >
