[classad-users] [classad users] Windows path problem with Java package

[Alessandro Maraschini <alessandro.maraschini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm working with Java classad.jar package and I found some problem while using the windows backslash separator,can you please help me?

Here follows a simple test program:



    String attr1 = "First" ;
    String attr2 = "Second" ;
    String attrValue = "C:\\Dir\\file.exe" ;


    // Creating a RecordExpr from parser
    String classAd =  "[ " + attr1 + "= \"" + attrValue +"\"]"  ;
    ClassAdParser cp = new   ClassAdParser(  classAd ) ;
    System.out.println( "***   Parse:\n"  + classAd  ) ;
    RecordExpr re   = (RecordExpr) cp.parse() ;


    //  insertAttribute
    System.out.println( "***   Insert:\n"  + attrValue ) ;
    re.insertAttribute   ( attr2 , Constant.getInstance(attrValue)   ) ;


    // Print ClassAd
    System.out.println( "***   ClassAd:\n" + re ) ;


    // retrieve info
    Constant co1 = (Constant) re.lookup( attr1 ) ;
    System.out.println(  "***   Retrieve 1:\n" +  co1.stringValue()    ) ;
    Constant co2 = (Constant) re.lookup( attr2 ) ;
    System.out.println(  "***   Retrieve 2:\n" +  co2.stringValue()    ) ;



and here's the standard output:

***   Parse:
[ First= "C:\Dir\file.exe"]
***   Insert:
C:\Dir\file.exe
***   ClassAd:
[ First = "C:Dir\file.exe"; Second = "C:\\Dir\\file.exe" ]
***   Retrieve 1:
C:Dir
     ile.exe
***   Retrieve 2:
C:\Dir\file.exe



There are two different problems:

1) If I use the ClassAdParser to parse a String and create a RecordExpr then I lose my information on some backslash, and

moreover when I retrieve this value it interpretates "survival" backslashes as Java special caracther '\n'  '\f' '\t' and so on

3) If I use the insertAttribute it works well when I get back the value but when I print the created RecordExpr with the toString() method it prints two backslashes



I guess maybe the two problems are connected someway...



thanks,

Alessandro



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