Sorry Nigel, to clarify yes I do see people using '.' in subscriber
names, for 2 main reasons:
- they sometimes like to use IPs or hostnames in the subscriber names
- they like to match subscriber names to destination names (which
typically include '.')
I'm not overly committed to this being in the spec, just thought it
might be nice.
Nick
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On 12/11/2012 16:51, Nigel Deakin wrote:
> Nick,
>
> On 12/11/2012 16:09, Nicholas Wright wrote:
>> On 12/11/2012 15:48, Nigel Deakin wrote:
>>> I would therefore like to suggest that we specify that the following
>>> characters must always be valid in a durable or non-durable
>>> subscription name:
>>>
>>> * Java letter or digit (as defined in Character.isLetterOrDigit)
>>>
>>> * Underscore (_, or \u005f)
>>
>> This looks like standard practice to me. Many people also use '.' in
>> their naming strategy. Given that this is a convention I see being
>> used widely can we include this also please.
>>
>> The choice of only underscores or alphanumerics would not break the
>> Apache ActiveMQ implementation to my knowledge (Rob is likely better
>> placed to act as the authority on this). They have a wildcarding
>> mechanism for subscription to destinations which takes things like
>> '*', this code will need to be checked. But this is a value add
>> feature outside of the spec.
>
> I know some JMS providers make use of "." and "*" in destination names
> for wildcarding. But I'm only concerned with subscription names here.
> Do your comments apply to subscription names as well?
>
> Nigel