[GEODE-5609] Region names should be able to contain multiple underscores

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.0
• Component/s: regions
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Kirk Lund
• Reporter: Kirk Lund
• Created: 21/Aug/18 00:10
• Updated: 03/Oct/18 21:37
• Resolved: 21/Aug/18 17:51

Description

Two leading underscores is not allowed (this is reserved for internal region names in Geode).

However, multiple underscores later in the region name is supposed to be ok.

Attempting to use more than one underscore results in this failure:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Region names may only be alphanumeric and may contain hyphens or underscores: class org.apache.geode.management.RegionManagementDUnitTest_testDistributedRegion_region
	at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.LocalRegion.validateRegionName(LocalRegion.java:7429)
	at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.GemFireCacheImpl.createVMRegion(GemFireCacheImpl.java:3003)
	at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.GemFireCacheImpl.basicCreateRegion(GemFireCacheImpl.java:2982)
	at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.GemFireCacheImpl.createRegion(GemFireCacheImpl.java:2970)
	at org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.create(RegionFactory.java:756)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2353