7 Nov
2014
7 Nov
'14
12:03 p.m.
Hi Edy,
thanks for your message. From a forward-looking standpoint, I 100% agree
with you that switching XWiki to case-insensitive would be a good thing to
do. I've seen others (as well as myself) be lost because they were going to
.../xwiki/bin/view/Main/Xyy instead of .../xwiki/bin/view/Main/XYY and
vice-versa. If we were to make the decision today, I can't see a good
reason why not to go case-insensitive, especially when targeting business
users.
However we're not starting from a blank slate. There might be (I don't know
that there is, but there might be) legitimate use cases for a page named
"Xyy" vs a page named "XYY", both in the same wiki. I'd like to
have a
better idea of the consequences of this change, as well an analysis of a
public site such as xwiki.org to see whether this could be causing
unforeseen and other unexpected issues. In other words: what could go wrong?
Thanks,
Guillaume
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On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Eduard Moraru <enygma2002(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi users and devs,
I would like to have your opinion on the topic of case sensitive vs case
insensitive and which one you prefer in XWiki.
Currently, XWiki is case sensitive. This means the same resource name
(document name, space name, etc) can be written with either small letters
or big letters or a mix.
Examples: You can have both "Main.Test" and "Main.test" as 2
different
documents. Also, you can have "XWiki.Admin" and "XWiki.admin" as 2
different users. This also applies to URLs, as "/Main/Test" is different
from "/Main/test" or "/main/test", so all these 3 are different
resources.
Even from this short description, one can already identify possible
problems of this approach.
From the top 3 operating systems (Linux, Mac an Windows), only Linux is
case sensitive, the other two (more user-focused Operating Systems) are
both case insensitive.
Since XWiki has one of its main targets the Enterprise users, it is safe to
assume that the correct approach would be to also be more user-focused and
simplify things and avoid confusions by being case insensitive as well.
Also, a quick search on existing issues validates the need for this
improvement:
http://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?jql=text%20~%20%22case%20insensitive%22
What do you think? Is it OK to keep XWiki case sensitive, or would you
prefer it case insensitive? Bring arguments.
I have also created a jira issue for this idea:
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11412 to track it in the future.
Thanks,
Eduard
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