[OASIS Issue Tracker] (MQTT-245) Remove trailing slashes from topic strings (review comment from Nicholas Humfrey)

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Richard Coppen updated MQTT-245:
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    Description: 
Public review comment received from Nicholas Humfrey (point 8) 

8) I do wish that leading and trailing slashes were forbidden. I think 
topic names should either have structure and semantic meaning, or not. 
The half-way house of 'use the topic name however you want' and slashes 
being significant for pattern-matching is confusing.

Roger Light has responded this comment as follows:

Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but the leading/trailing slashes
just create zero length topic hierarchy element at the beginning/end
of the topic. So the topic "/mqtt//comment/" would be split into five
levels, '', 'mqtt', '', 'comment' and ''. The only inconsistency that
I am aware of is that although leading slashes allow you to produce a
topic that starts with a zero length element, there is no way to
address that zero length element itself because zero length topics are
forbidden for some reason.

Response from Nicholas:

Hm, interesting. Although it is logical, I doubt many users would 
immediately understand that.

  was:
Public review comment received from Nicholas Humfrey (point 8) 

8) I do wish that leading and trailing slashes were forbidden. I think 
topic names should either have structure and semantic meaning, or not. 
The half-way house of 'use the topic name however you want' and slashes 
being significant for pattern-matching is confusing.

Roger Light has responded this comment as follows:

Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but the leading/trailing slashes
just create zero length topic hierarchy element at the beginning/end
of the topic. So the topic "/mqtt//comment/" would be split into five
levels, '', 'mqtt', '', 'comment' and ''. The only inconsistency that
I am aware of is that although leading slashes allow you to produce a
topic that starts with a zero length element, there is no way to
address that zero length element itself because zero length topics are
forbidden for some reason.


> Remove trailing slashes from topic strings (review comment from Nicholas Humfrey)
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>
>                 Key: MQTT-245
>                 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/MQTT-245
>             Project: OASIS Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.1
>            Reporter: Richard Coppen
>
> Public review comment received from Nicholas Humfrey (point 8) 
> 8) I do wish that leading and trailing slashes were forbidden. I think 
> topic names should either have structure and semantic meaning, or not. 
> The half-way house of 'use the topic name however you want' and slashes 
> being significant for pattern-matching is confusing.
> Roger Light has responded this comment as follows:
> Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but the leading/trailing slashes
> just create zero length topic hierarchy element at the beginning/end
> of the topic. So the topic "/mqtt//comment/" would be split into five
> levels, '', 'mqtt', '', 'comment' and ''. The only inconsistency that
> I am aware of is that although leading slashes allow you to produce a
> topic that starts with a zero length element, there is no way to
> address that zero length element itself because zero length topics are
> forbidden for some reason.
> Response from Nicholas:
> Hm, interesting. Although it is logical, I doubt many users would 
> immediately understand that.



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