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Re: "/" character in application bundle identifier

Le dimanche, 28 sep 2003, ` 21:55 Europe/Zurich, Chris Parker a icrit :

Hi Jirtme,

On Sep 27, 2003, at 12:50 AM, Jirtme Laurens wrote:

for dev purpose i incidentally chose my app bundle identifier to contain a "/" character. The unexpected result is that the prefs are now written in a subfolder of the ~/Library/Preferences folder. This seems very natural due to the "/" but I can't see it documented somewhere. Is it safe to use this feature (for a suite of related applications), I am afraid of other side effects I am not aware of.

I would not rely on that behavior. CFPreferences is interpreting the bundle ID with the slash in it and creating the subdirectory as a side effect of the way it's parsing your bundle ID.

I'm not completely sure where the bug here is, but I wouldn't rely on this behavior in the future (at least from a preferences standpoint).



Last remark on the subject:

1- if we consider the bundle identifier to be just an identifier, the '/' character should be treated as any other one, and the actual implementation contains a bug

2- if we consider the bundle identifier to be a partial path, then the 'defaults' command seems buggy because 'defaults domains' does not list deep domains identified with a slash. This is the only problem I could find when using '/' in identifiers, at first glance.

IMHO, point 2 should be adopted, it allows to make the prefs folder cleaner. Mine looks more and more like OS 8 old days.

A+JL
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