[katello-devel] Case sensitive behavior in katello

[Eric Sammons]

----- Original Message -----
> On 9.8.2012 18:08, Eric Sammons wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> On 9.8.2012 17:48, Eric Sammons wrote:
> >>> During a call today some questions about case sensitive behavior
> >>> for users, environments, and I'm sure applicable to other areas,
> >>> came up.  The short, should Name == name == NaMe == NAME?
> >>>
> >>> The issue here is, especially with usernames, orgs, and
> >>> environments, username should equal USERNAME likewise a dev
> >>> environment should be the same as a DEV environment (within a org
> >>> Dev is not going to be different from DEV and JOHNDOE won't be a
> >>> different user from JohnDoe).  Does everyone agree? Keep in mind
> >>> this would likely apply to organizational names as well.
> >>
> >> Do we support UTF-8 characters in some of those NAMEs?
> >>
> >> Mirek
> >>
> >
> > I should have mentioned that the issue today is that katello treats
> > these values as unique; i.e. under ACME_Corporation I can have
> > Library->DEV->dev.  I am under the impression that this should not
> > be permitted.
> >
> > --Eric
> 
> While I was trying to point that ruby does not handle UTF well:
> 
> a='exámple'
> a.upcase
> => "EXáMPLE"
> 
> And I personally do not see Library->DEV->dev as problem. I can even
> imagine, that somebody may want this.
> 
> Mirek
> 

Coming from GSS and having been a customer I can assure you that DEV == dev == Dev in a production world.  Anything like Library->DEV->dev would be bad design within a company because in the real world dev is dev is dev regardless of how you type it.  The same goes for usernames; in fact most web ui apps will convert for you the username entered to the case supported (for example I have seen, esammons at example.com get changed to ESAMMONS at EXAMPLE.COM, perhaps they have a Mainframe backend).

So while I may not agree here that allowing Dev DEV and dev, I am more of the opinion that we either fix it or we document it because as is the current behavior could be dangerous.