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Bug 24492

Summary:	[resources] Need better message for resource files with leading whitespaces
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Sven Blösl <Sven.Bloesl>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	helpwanted
Version:	2.0.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Sven Blösl

2002-10-08 06:26:23 EDT

Eclipse fails to build projects, which contain resource files with leading 
whitespace character. Instead an uninformative log entry is generated.
First of all i dont see, why Eclipse cannot copy such resource files.
Besides that should the log entry at least include the offending path name.

Comment 1 Sonia Dimitrov

2002-10-08 09:46:51 EDT

A few requests:

1.  Please provide steps that reproduce this problem
2.  Attach the .metadata/log file

Comment 2 Sven Blösl

2002-10-08 10:23:46 EDT

Take any project you like, put a file called " whatever.notjava" (without the 
quotation marks) into some java source directory, so that it will be copied 
into the respective build directory. Refresh the project list.

-> "The project was not built. It may be inconsistent, ..." in the task list 

and the log contains the following stack trace:

org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.ResourceException: Names cannot begin or 
end with whitespace.
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.checkValidPath
(Resource.java:261)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.checkCopyRequirements
(Resource.java:122)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.assertCopyRequirements
(Resource.java:78)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.copy(Resource.java:350)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.builder.BatchImageBuilder$3.visit
[...]
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.accept(Resource.java:40)
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.builder.BatchImageBuilder.copyExtraResourcesBack
(BatchImageBuilder.java:116)
[...]

Comment 3 Sonia Dimitrov

2002-10-08 11:23:52 EDT

Eclipse naming conventions do not allow leading or trailing whitespaces in 
resources.  There is no intention to change this behavior.

Comment 4 Sven Blösl

2002-10-09 04:18:08 EDT

Okay, whitespaces are not allowed. But it should give a proper error message, 
which gives a hint where to find the offending file. Otherwise it is burdensome 
to find it, if you create an eclipse-project on foreign code.

Comment 5 DJ Houghton

2002-10-09 08:33:32 EDT

Re-opening.
Investigate putting the full path name in the exception.

See Workspace.checkValidPath, Workspace.validateName.

Comment 6 DJ Houghton

2002-11-18 14:57:59 EST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26404 ***