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Michael Dürig commented on OAK-221:
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OAK API paths currently behave as follows:
* Paths are always absolute. There is no notion of relative paths
* A path is a string consisting of names separated by slashes (/)
* The root path is denoted by the empty string
* A single leading slash is ignored
This was documented once in my initial path mapper implementation but must have
gotten lost in the process of re-factoring.
> Clarify nature of 'path' parameter in oak-api
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Key: OAK-221
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-221
> Project: Jackrabbit Oak
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: core
> Reporter: angela
>
> imo the oak-api should be more specific about the nature of the
> path parameter that is passed to methods like Root#getTree, #move, #copy
> and that is returned by methods like Tree#getPath.
> The api documentation consistently states that those paths are "relative to
> the 'root' but when looking at the code i rather get the impression that
> they are absolute paths such as defined by the JCR API.
> for example:
> SessionDelegate#getNode(String path) just passes the path to the oak-api
> without making it 'relative to the root'.
> on the other hand SessionDelegate#getRoot() passes an ""-path to Root#getTree.
> another example:
> SessionDelegate#getNodeByIdentifier starts like follows:
> if (id.startsWith("/")) {
> Tree tree = getTree(id);
> [...]
> so, again the absolute jcr path is passed into the oak-api.
> requested action:
> - clarify oak-api
> - check all usages of oak-api and make api calls consistent
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