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Bug 353939

Summary:	Project Explorer broken when STEM workspace path contains a space
Product:	[Technology] STEM	Reporter:	Christian Thoens <christian.thoens>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <stem.core-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT_ECLIPSE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	mattadav, sedlund
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.1.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Christian Thoens

2011-08-04 16:18:06 EDT

If the STEM-workspace contains a space there are the following problems:

Changes to to STEM-objects in the editor are not always propagated to the project explorer, for example: if you add a model to a scenario, the model does not appear in the scenario in the project explorer.

This is because the URI of some objects contains the path with the space, which causes problems in comparing URIs.

Comment 1 Matthew Davis

2011-08-04 16:45:43 EDT

Chris, are you seeing this when the workspace path has a space in it (and, by default, STEM has a space in the path)... like putting STEM at C:\program files\STEM

Comment 2 Christian Thoens

2011-08-04 18:08:22 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Chris, are you seeing this when the workspace path has a space in it (and, by
> default, STEM has a space in the path)... like putting STEM at C:\program
> files\STEM

Yes, exactly.

Comment 3 Stefan Edlund

2011-08-04 18:09:49 EDT

I'm able to reproduce this on Mac too. The problem is the EMF Resource class
getURI() method is not able to return a platform URI
(platform:/resource/<project>...) when the resource is stored in a path with a
space it. Instead it returns the absolute path (file://...), that's what
causing the problem.

We won't fix this for the 1.2.1 release, it'll be documented instead. Might be
an EMF bug.

Comment 4 James Kaufman

2011-10-03 17:22:03 EDT

let's resolve this one way or another for 1.2.3
I'm not sure it is a bug. If we want to ensure support across OS perhaps we should not allow spaces in the path?

Comment 5 James Kaufman

2011-10-17 12:05:23 EDT

This is not a STEM bug. Eclipse does not allow a Space character in workspace path. 
I updated the wiki to let users know of this.