Re: [Tmapi-discuss] Unspecified Locator Exception

[Lars H. <he...@se...>]

Hi Sven,

> What does the getReference method mean, should it returns the given
> string reference of the locator without any escaped characters?

Yes, all %HH escape sequences are replaced by the characters they
represent.

toExternalForm() returns the IRI with %HH escape sequences.


> If the constructor of Locator is called by an escaped references,
> like by using the topic map reader classes, should it be decoded
> before saving the reference or not?

I don't know what you mean by "saving the reference". It makes sense
to create the "reference" as early as possible since getReference() is
used to check Locator objects for equivalence.

"http://example.org/~user".equals("http://example.org/%7euser") = true
"http://example.org/~user".equals("http://example.org/%7Euser") = true


[...]
> The topic map reader will throw an expection if the locator
> contained by a topic block has unescaped whitespaces.

I don't know to which topic map reader you're referring to. If you
read an XTM/CTM source, all IRIs should be URL-encoded.

Best regards,
Lars
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