[CONFIGURATION-418] incorrect backslash parsing

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6
• Fix Version/s: 2.0

Environment

Commons Configuration 1.6

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ricardo Martin
• Created: 31/May/10 14:49
• Updated: 24/Mar/16 20:20
• Resolved: 13/Jul/13 19:48

Description

I am using Commons Configuration (PropertiesConfiguration) and some of my data are windows shares:
share1 or
share2. The problem is the parsing return different things depending how the keys are defined. For example, these keys

share=\\\\share1
share=\\\\share2

are different than:

share=\\\\share1, \\\\share2

The first one returns two backslashes ("
share1" and "
share2") and the second returns just one ("\share1" and "\share2"). I think the problem is in PropertyConverter line 525, cos the backslash is hidden twice when multivalue parsing is done:

if (c != delimiter && c != LIST_ESC_CHAR)

{ // no, also add escape character token.append(LIST_ESC_CHAR); }

In my understanding the second condition produces this strange issue and it should be like this:

if (c != delimiter)
{ // no, also add escape character token.append(LIST_ESC_CHAR); }

Check that cos I can be missing something...

TIA

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CONFIGURATION-547 Handling of backslashes