[OSM-dev] Semicolon

[Tom Hughes]

In message <a4c775140711130535n512c9cbat432d47f7aeb27597 at mail.gmail.com>
        Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:

> Patch attached.

Thanks.

> What it does:
>  - escapes all ';' with '\s'
>  - escapes all '=' with '\e'
>  - escapes all '\' with '\\'
>  - unescapes for requests
>  - works for API and Potlatch

I can't say I'm a great fan of that escaping scheme, but I'll have
a think and see if I can come up with anything better.

> So basically anything that doesn't use the API (either node interface,
> or amf interface) will fail to properly escape or unescape the ; and
> =.

Do we have any idea what the performance impact on the map API call
is? That's an awful lot of (slow) ruby string manipulation that we're
adding to it...

> The patch also fixes a bug in the amf controller's handling of
> escaping text for the sql (you have to triple escape '\' passed as a
> replacement string to gsub as it interprets \1 \2 etc in the string,
> or just use a block)

Interesting... What's with all that weird 92.char stuff anyway... Any
comments Richard?

Tom

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