On 03/11/2013 12:56 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
So,
compareToAscii never returned zero
means
url.compareToAscii(..) == 0 never was true
so you are saying that
return bEnabled &&
url.compareToAscii("sdbc:embedded:hsqldb",sizeof("sdbc:embedded:hsqldb")) == 0
was in fact equivalent to
return false;
In other words, you are saying that foo.compareToAscii(bar, n) is more or less a
memcmp(&foo, &bar, min(strlen(foo),n)); provided foo is long enough it
always compares *exactly* n characters/bytes, never less.
I *strongly* doubt that, since it would mean that embedded hsqldb .odb
files WOULD NOT WORK AT ALL.
Indeed, looking in sal/rtl/ustring.cxx at function
rtl_ustr_ascii_shortenedCompare_WithLength,
it seems to me it handles the terminating NULL specially:
while ( (nShortenedLength > 0) &&
(pStr1 < pStr1End) && *pStr2 )
{
...
}
(...)
if ( *pStr2 )
{
...
}
else
{
nRet = pStr1End - pStr1;
}
That is, it returns 0 if and only if its first argument (that is, in
our example, the value of the url variable) it precisely equal to the
pStr2 argument.
In other words, I think foo.compareToAscii(bar, n) is more or less a
memcmp(&foo, &bar, min(strlen(foo),strlen(bar),n))
that is more or less a
strncmp(&foo, &bar, n)
In other words, if bar is of length less than 1000, then all these
calls are equivalent:
foo.compareToAscii(bar, sizeof(bar))
foo.compareToAscii(bar, strlen(bar))
foo.compareToAscii(bar, 1000)
foo == bar
Ah, right, indeed. Even better catch.
(and, while we are at it, at least for the initial "sdbc" part, URI
syntax would mandated case-insensitive comparison anyway, unless the
given url is known to be normalized to lowercase),
I'm not sure if it is guaranteed normalised. If it is not, we have
this bug (of case-sensitivity) all over the place, not only in
embedded HSQLDB.
Yes, I guess we have that bug in many places, not only in connectivity.
I occasionally notice it and think, ah, that code isn't quite right,
but rarely bother to do anything about it, mostly because (a) it is
probably a bug rarely noticed in practice, where everybody writes URI
schemes in all-lowercase anyway, and (b) often not trivially fixed by
switching to a case-insensitive comparison function, as often only part
of a given string shall be compared case insensitively.
Stephan
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