[SOLR-771] CoreAdminHandler STATUS should display 'normalized' paths

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4
• Assignee: Shalin Shekhar Mangar
• Reporter: Chris M. Hostetter
• Created: 15/Sep/08 01:34
• Updated: 10/Nov/09 15:51
• Resolved: 20/Sep/08 15:16

Description

From the mailing list...

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Koji Sekiguchi  wrote:
> I'm checking MultiCore/CoreAdmin stuff in branch-1.3 and noticed
> that /admin/cores?action=STATUS returns weird path info on Windows:
>
> <str name="instanceDir">multicore\core0/</str>
> <str name="dataDir">multicore\core0/data/</str>
>
> Backslash and slash characters are mixed in path info. Java client
> can easily handle these weird path string, but other clients may not.
> I think we should use file.separator system property
> before releasing 1.3. Thought?

I think clients should be able to handle mixed path separators - they
need to be able to handle both anyway, and seeing mixed forward and
backward slashes in windows isn't that uncommon.  We should fix it to
be consistent (I like standardized forward slashes myself), but it