I wrote a CaseInsensitiveMap. I don't see what the problem is.
Reto Bachmann-Gmür wrote:
> HttpHeaders.getRequestHeaders has to return a
> MultivaluedMap<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> that is
> case-insensitive with regards to keys. I'm not sure how such a case
> insensitive map is supposed to work exactly (e.g. what does keySet
> return?) and I think that it might be quite hard to have a definition
> compatible the the API for the java.util.Map (which is extended by
> MultivaluedMap).
>
> An issue is map identity. The javadoc for java.util.Map.equals says:
> "Returns true if the given object is also a map and the two maps
> represent the same mappings." as the mapping of keys with different
> casing is the same I would think that two maps are equals is they differ
> only by the casing of the keys, however the text more specifically says:
> "More formally, two maps m1 and m2 represent the same mappings if
> m1.entrySet().equals(m2.entrySet())." The latter condition is only met
> if the EntryS contains the key with the same casing (or if the keyset is
> expanded to contain possible casings of a key), but this is not defined
> by the jax-rs spec.
>
> I think jax-rs should not introduce a case-insensitive map but rather
> either specify that all-lower (or upper) case strings are to be used as
> keys or introduce a class like "CaseInsensitiveString" used as key in
> the map.
>
> Reto
>
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