Whitespace characters in object names

[Danny]

I often use SmartConsole Demo Mode as a reference guide to showcase vendor best practices and recommendations.
I discovered in SmartConsole R82 & R82.10 Demo Mode that many object names contain whitespace characters.
Is this officially supported now? Regarding sk40179, sk182523 it's not.



@Omer_Ran 

[the_rock]

Hey Danny,

I also noticed the same in R82.10 demo smart console.

[Duane_Toler]

This was doable in R81.x as well, probably R80.x.  Given that the objects are now really just a UUID in the database, the "name" is somewhat irrelevant.  (key word: "somewhat").

[Danny]

@Duane_Toler: Just because it's doable doesn't mean it's supported. sk40179 describes it as an illegal character that is forbidden to use.

[Duane_Toler]

Yep, good point.  However, I have lots of objects in R81.20 and beyond (and I'm almost certain it was allowed in R80.20) with objects containing spaces.   "So far" no issues.  🤞 (yeah i know... more famous last words, right?)  Now just watch.. as soon as I wrote that, I'll have a customer cough up some FWK worker thread crash because of an object with a space. 😁

[Lesley]

Objects I am not sure, but rules with whitespace in for example rule name shows up as an error in cpm doctor. 

[Omer_Ran]

Hi @Danny .

I don't know if there is a comprehensive documentation about this, but I know that some types of objects still have this restriction, and some don't.

[tankp]

An object name can include white spaces in the middle, but not at the beginning or the end.

sk153833 - "The object name must not contain whitespace characters at the beginning or the end" mess...

[Danny]

@tankp : This sk is regarding a rule's name or comment, not regarding object's names.