Re: [classad-users] Bug related to keywords

[Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The issue is ?
> If we have a classad:
> [?error? = 1]
> In spite of the attribute name being a keyword the parsing succeeds 
> because the name is quoted.
> However when the ClassAd gets Unparsed, it spits it out as:
> [error = 1]
> Now if we try to parse this again, the parser bails out.

I'm betting that it's still an issue--thanks for pointing it out!

> I?ve fixed this issue in both the Java & C++ libraries by getting the 
> unparser to spit it out with single-quotes.

Can you send me patches?

> However, Im wondering, if that?s the best solution.
> Would you rather have the parser succeed if it encountered ?[error = 1]?, 
> because the keyword is actually an attribute-name & hence the parser 
> shouldn?t mind it.

It's a good question, and I'm not sure what the answer is--it's not clear 
to me from the reference manual. Marv--do you have some input on this?

-alain