#7 BlobContainer::setContainerMetadata() sets keys to lowercase

[jeff00seattle]

BlobContainer::setContainerMetadata() sets keys within NameValueCollection objMetadata when stored in cloud.

For example, "createBy" becomes "createby", when returned after getting Blob Container and reading NameValueCollection metadata from ContainerProperties.

[chuwei huang]

According to document at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179404.aspx,
Names are case-insensitive. If two or more headers with the same name are
submitted for a resource, the headers will be combined into a single header
with a comma delimiting each value.

The total size of the metadata, including both the name and value
together, may not exceed 8 KB in size.

Metadata name/value pairs are valid HTTP headers, and so they adhere to
all restrictions governing HTTP headers.

[jeff00seattle]

Thereby,
MetadataContainer.get( "createBy" ) will return null, because it does not exist. That is because key was renamed to "createby".

[jeff00seattle]

I have add a JUnit pertaining to this issue.

If Names are case-insensitive, then should not all of the following return the same value?:
NameValueCollection::get( "createBy" )
NameValueCollection::get( "createby" )
NameValueCollection::get( "CREATEDBY" )

If this is the case, then there is still a bug, because only lowercase is returning a value.
NameValueCollection::get( "createby" );

The fix would be for NameValueCollection::get( String strName ) to treat strName as case-insensitive, and not expect the SDK user to change strName to lowercase.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

I think there is some misunderstanding. You should verify

assertEquals( "Window Azure SDK for Java",objMetadataPost.getSingleValue("createdBy") );
assertEquals( "Window Azure SDK for Java",objMetadataPost.getSingleValue("createdby") );
assertEquals( "Window Azure SDK for Java",objMetadataPost.getSingleValue("CREATEDBY") );

Instead of verifying
assertTrue(objMetadataPost.containsKey("createdBy"));

[jeff00seattle]

Updated JUnit test

[jeff00seattle]

Problem varified with new test:
String strValue = null;

strValue = objMetadataPost.getSingleValue("createdBy");
assertNotNull(strValue);
assertEquals( "Window Azure SDK for Java",strValue );

strValue = objMetadataPost.getSingleValue("CREATEDBY");
assertNotNull(strValue);
assertEquals( "Window Azure SDK for Java",strValue );

strValue = objMetadataPost.getSingleValue("createdby");
assertNotNull(strValue);
assertEquals( "Window Azure SDK for Java",strValue );

[chuwei huang]

already fixed

[David Kocher]

The issue is not fixed in the latest version available in the SVN.