[xwiki-users] [XE 1.2.2] Space characters trimmed in attachment names

[Jean-Vincent Drean]

> Hello,
>
> Don't know if it's a bug or an evolution, but after migrating my xwiki to
> 1.2.2, when I attach a new file to a page, all spaces characters are trimmed
> from the name. I didn't found anything about that in Jira.
> For example "My Doc Attached.doc" gets renamed to "MyDocAttached.doc".

http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2090
http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2087

The use of the clearName method for attachment names is a temporary
fix until the resolution of all our encoding issues.

> I see at least one issue coming from this : if you attach the same file it's
> not considered the same because it's renamed. Your existing links also link
> to the previous version, and it's not easy to find by end-user.
> And anyway you don't want the file to be renamed when attached …

Yes this is a drawback of this fix.

JV.