[PLUTO-50] PortletURL.setParameter("key.with.dot", ...) breaks portal

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: unspecified
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.1-rc2
• Component/s: portal driver
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: All
• Bugzilla Id: 29421
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Pradeep
• Created: 07/Jun/04 14:16
• Updated: 10/Dec/04 03:37
• Resolved: 19/Aug/04 03:57

Description

When a key is used with "." (DOT) in PortletURL.setParameter("key.with.dot",
...), pluto portal breaks and gives SEVERE error.
Exception will be "java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: with", if
key="key.with.dot"

Same problem occurs for renderParameters, as reported here
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=[e-mail]&msgNo=688

It is a common practice to use DOT's for key. I did some investigation and here
is what I found:

this method
org.apache.pluto.portalImpl.core.PortalURL.analyzeRequestInformation() is
tokenizing on "/" and "." for parameters, which is not allowing to have a key
with "." (DOT).

Because of internal encoding, any render param's value should start with an int,
representing the count.. here "with" becomes value for key "key".. as a result
method PortalControlParameter.decodeRenderParamValues() line 74 throws an NFE,
which appears as:
"java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: with"

Is DOT reserved for internal use or is there any specific reason for not
allowing DOT in keys? otherwise we can fix it as follows:

[portal\src\java\org\apache\pluto\portalImpl\core\PortalURL.java, line 377: ]

StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(pathInfo, "/.");

following will fix the issue:
StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(pathInfo, "/");