[Building Sakai] EntityBroker. Spaces in custom action entity ids

Aaron Zeckoski azeckoski at unicon.net
Mon Aug 2 10:36:28 PDT 2010


I understand that. However, EB does not allow spaces in IDs (currently).
-AZ


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Adrian Fish <a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> But spaces are allowed in site ids and site ids can be entity ids. Using the
> sites tool you can specify a site id with spaces in it.
>
> Adrian.
>
> Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
>>
>> OK, then the issue is that it expects IDs to conform to the limits I
>> sent earlier as far as characters. Spaces are not allowed as part of
>> an ID.
>>
>> -AZ
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Adrian Fish <a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It does. I tested that :)
>>>
>>> Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am assuming it works fine for ones without spaces?
>>>> -AZ
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Adrian Fish <a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Aaron,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using 1.3.9 plus the !site.helper patch to the userPerms action in
>>>>> the
>>>>> site provider.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hitting a url like this:
>>>>> http://btc224000006.lancs.ac.uk/direct/site/a%20b%20c/pages.json ...
>>>>>
>>>>> ... yields this in the logs:
>>>>>
>>>>> INFO Could not process entity: /site (400)[null]: Cannot execute custom
>>>>> action (pages) for request method GET, The custom action view key
>>>>> (show)
>>>>> must match the request view key (list)
>>>>>
>>>>> Adrian.
>>>>>
>>>>> Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> An ID with a space in it? I am guessing the system is seeing it as a
>>>>>> divider of some kind. IDs are pretty limited and the parser will
>>>>>> expect them to only contain the following chars
>>>>>> (A-Za-z0-9()+*.-_=,:;!~@%). You might try encoding the space as %20.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you paste in the message from the logs? It should have more
>>>>>> information (I hope). Also, what version of EB?
>>>>>> -AZ
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Adrian Fish <a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Has anybody encountered this with entity broker before? If you pass a
>>>>>>> site
>>>>>>> id with spaces to any of the site entity custom actions you get this
>>>>>>> returned:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Could not process entity: /site (400)[null]: Cannot execute custom
>>>>>>> action
>>>>>>> (pages) for request method GET, The custom action view key (show)
>>>>>>> must
>>>>>>> match
>>>>>>> the request view key (list)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How can I fix this? It's urgent, so if somebody can point me to the
>>>>>>> right
>>>>>>> place in the code and I'll sort it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Adrian.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> ==================================
>>>>>>> Adrian Fish
>>>>>>> Software Engineer
>>>>>>> Centre for e-Science
>>>>>>> Bowland Tower South C Floor
>>>>>>> Lancaster University
>>>>>>> Lancaster
>>>>>>> LA1 4YW
>>>>>>> email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/YAFT/Yaft
>>>>>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CLOG/Home
>>>>>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BBB/Home
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> ==================================
>>>>> Adrian Fish
>>>>> Software Engineer
>>>>> Centre for e-Science
>>>>> Bowland Tower South C Floor
>>>>> Lancaster University
>>>>> Lancaster
>>>>> LA1 4YW
>>>>> email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk
>>>>>
>>>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/YAFT/Yaft
>>>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CLOG/Home
>>>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BBB/Home
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ==================================
>>> Adrian Fish
>>> Software Engineer
>>> Centre for e-Science
>>> Bowland Tower South C Floor
>>> Lancaster University
>>> Lancaster
>>> LA1 4YW
>>> email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk
>>>
>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/YAFT/Yaft
>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CLOG/Home
>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BBB/Home
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> ==================================
> Adrian Fish
> Software Engineer
> Centre for e-Science
> Bowland Tower South C Floor
> Lancaster University
> Lancaster
> LA1 4YW
> email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk
>
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/YAFT/Yaft
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CLOG/Home
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BBB/Home
>
>



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