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* Case-sensitivity of Node IDs
@ 2021-10-24 23:21 Koushik Roy
2021-10-27 7:52 ` Sergey Matveev
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From: Koushik Roy @ 2021-10-24 23:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: nncp-devel
Hey,
I was wondering if it's expected behavior for node IDs to _have_ to be
upper-case. If this is intended behavior, would it be possible to note
this either in the docs or to have a better error message when rejecting
node IDs from the CLI tools?
I was trying to use `nncp-exec` to call a few handles but was passing in
the node ID lowercase which is where I ran into the issue.
Thanks,
Koushik
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* Re: Case-sensitivity of Node IDs
2021-10-24 23:21 Case-sensitivity of Node IDs Koushik Roy
@ 2021-10-27 7:52 ` Sergey Matveev
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From: Sergey Matveev @ 2021-10-27 7:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: nncp-devel
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Greetings!
*** Koushik Roy [2021-10-24 16:21]:
>I was wondering if it's expected behavior for node IDs to _have_ to be upper-case.
You can specify node ID either by its Base32-encoded representation, or
by its alias human-readable name, as it appears in configuration file
(like "self" for example, existing out of box). Human-readable ids have
to be passed as-is as they are written in configuration -- they are case
sensitive. Non-human-readable ids have to be passed as-is too. Base32
encoding uses uppercase alphabet characters.
So, ids just have to be passed as-is. Base32 is upper-case. I wonder who
and how mangle those ids? One just should not alter ids anyhow. Because
raw Base32 encoded ids are not indented for humans, they should be
copy-pasted/used as-is, not mangled by scripts. I think it would be
excess note that "node ids have to be passed as-is", because in my
opinion it should be assumed by default.
If I passed invalid case in Base32 encoded id, then utility will give:
main.go:119: Invalid NODE specified: Can not parse node: 2W...Bq: illegal base32 data at input byte 51
that explicitly tells about wrong encoding format.
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Sergey Matveev (http://www.stargrave.org/)
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