[jira] [Commented] (LOG4J2-466) Wrong path decoding if path consists of '+'

["Remko Popma (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Remko Popma commented on LOG4J2-466:
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Team, how about changing this line (FileUtils line 66)
{code}
return new File(URLDecoder.decode(uri.toURL().getFile(), "UTF8"));
{code}
to this?
{code}
String fileName = uri.toURL().getFile();
if (new File(fileName).exists()) {
    return new File(fileName); // allows paths with '+' characters
}
return new File(URLDecoder.decode(fileName, "UTF8"));
{code}

> Wrong path decoding if path consists of '+'
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-466
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-466
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Core
>    Affects Versions: 2.0-beta9
>         Environment: Mac Pro 
>            Reporter: Jan Tepke
>            Priority: Trivial
>   Original Estimate: 10m
>  Remaining Estimate: 10m
>
> Hello,
> I was trying to programmatically load a XML config file from the temporary data directory of a MacOS X system. The temp path consists of serveral '\+' characters like MacOS automatically generates this path so we have to take it this way. Even I would agree that it is not nice to have '\+' chars in a path name.
> When I tried to load the XML config the framework permanently loaded the DefaultConfig and not the desired XML configuration.
> By stepping through the debugger I figured out that this was caused by the method fileFromURI() in org.apache.logging.log4j.core.helpers.FileUtils.java .
> The misbehaviour was basically caused by the call of URL.decode() which converts '+' to ' ' (space) of a given String. 
> Now I self-compiled the whole framework without the call of URL.decode() and the XML configuration loaded properly. 
> I can not see why this call is necessary in this method so in my opinion this should be removed.
> Kind regards



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