dots in charm names (shelr.tv)

[Marco Ceppi]

Aside from there being a issue in pymongo, what would be the reason for
disallowing a period in the name of a charm? At any rate the charm policy
should be updated in addition to the charm-tools to document this
limitation.


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Kapil Thangavelu <
kapil.thangavelu at canonical.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Gustavo Niemeyer <
> gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Abel Deuring
>> <abel.deuring at canonical.com> wrote:
>> > Divergence betwen LP and the charm store might be an issue (though
>> > charmworld checks the main store too), but that's not my main point,
>> > neither is importing from LP an issue with shelr.tv. The problem we
>> have
>> > with this charm is that we use MongoDB records like {'_id':
>> > 'cs:<long-path>/shelr.tv', ...}
>>
>> This charm *has never existed in the store*. You wouldn't have
>> problems if you took that into account.
>>
>> Even pretending to users that it exists is already an issue.
>
> (...)
>> > So we have a possible name inconsistency between LP and the charm
>> > store... Can we assume that dots (and perhaps other other symbols) are
>>
>> There's no inconsistency. The charm store is the only authoritative
>> place for charms. If it's not in the store, it doesn't exist. Of
>> course, we can have many charm branches in Launchpad, but that doesn't
>> necessarily mean it's a charm in the store, much like if you find a
>> branch in Launchpad you shouldn't assume it is an Ubuntu package.
>>
>>
>
> afaics the best way to ensure this divergence doesn't happen is to use the
> go charm definition for validation of a charm and incorporate that into
> charm-lint/charm browser, or alternatively to put an interface on the charm
> store to collect the errors for a given charm branch there.
>
> incidentally the mongodb issue is a pymongo driver thing, previous
> versions of the driver where able to handle '.' in values without issue.
>
> cheers,
>
> Kapil
>
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