[GitHub] mdeuser opened a new issue #2830: Namespaces with a leading '_' character result in cloudant failures

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mdeuser opened a new issue #2830: Namespaces with a leading '_' character result in cloudant failures
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/issues/2830
 
 
   When creating an action (or any other entity) in a namespace having a name that has a `_` as the leading character, the controller encounters the following error when saving the entity document in cloudant
   ```
   [ERROR] [#tid_38539220] [CouchDbRestStore] [PUT] 'bluemix_prod_whisks1' failed to put document: 'id: _CombiEric__Rocks/monkey, rev: null'; http status: '400 Bad Request' [marker:database_saveDocument_error:18:3]
   ```
   As shown, the cloudant document id is based off of the entity's fully qualified name - which starts with the namespace name; in this example, the namespace is `_CombiEric__Rocks`.  According to https://console.bluemix.net/docs/services/Cloudant/api/document.html#documents cloudant document `_id` values may not have a leading `_` character, resulting in the cloudant request failure.
   
   Possible solutions:
   - Do not allow namespaces with leading `_` characters
   - Escape any leading `_` character in the `_id` field
 
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