Is Period the best parts separator for Queue/Topic/Subscription Paths?

[nimbusapi]

Is Period the best parts separator for Queue/Topic/Subscription Paths?

[DamianMac]

I'm a bit confused by this, I get what you're saying about IIS.. but are you trying to address a queue in a way that you're getting a 404 ?
We don't have a lot of options that are valid on azure, we can use an underscore, a period or a hyphen.

[michaelnoonan]

Yeah, it's not really related to running Nimbus as a Service Bus, but I
bumpted into a problem getting dead letter management working.

I was using the queue path as part of the URL in a web request to get dead
letters from the $DeadLetter subqueue (for which you need the original
queue path), and subsequently destroying or replaying them.

For example: DELETE /deadletters/q.myqueue

IIS responded to this request with a 404 treating "q.myqueue" as a file
that wasn't found.

Appending a '/' to the end of the URL fixed the immediate problem:
For example: DELETE /deadletters/q.myqueue/

Just thought to ask the question in case there was a more universally
acceptable parts separator Nimbus could use out of the gate, like hyphen,
that wouldn't cause the unsuspecting developer confusion when tackling
problems like this.

Either way this is probably a corner case and could happily be ignored.

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Damian Maclennan
[email protected]:

I'm a bit confused by this, I get what you're saying about IIS.. but are
you trying to address a queue in a way that you're getting a 404 ?
We don't have a lot of options that are valid on azure, we can use an
underscore, a period or a hyphen.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/DamianMac/Nimbus/issues/43#issuecomment-34951859
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[uglybugger]

This is a known pain in the backside when dealing with MVC routing on IIS - it treats anything with a . that doesn't precede a slash as a static filename rather than a parameter.

Not sure how much we want to care about it in this context, though - is it likely to come up often? Thoughts?