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  1. XWiki Platform
  2. XWIKI-11412

Make XWiki case insensitive

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    • Idea
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Major
    • None
    • 6.3-rc-1
    • Old Core
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    Description

      Currently, XWiki is case sensitive. This means the same resource name (document name, space name, etc) can be written with either small letters or big letters or a mix.

      Examples: You can have both "Main.Test" and "Main.test" as 2 different documents. Also, you can have "XWiki.Admin" and "XWiki.admin" as 2 different users. This also applies to URLs, as "/Main/Test" is different from "/Main/test" or "/main/test", so all these 3 are different resources.

      Even from this short description, one can already identify possible problems of this approach.

      From the top 3 operating systems (Linux, Mac an Windows), only Linux is case sensitive, the other two (more user-focused Operating Systems) are both case insensitive.

      Since XWiki has one of its main targets the Enterprise users, it is safe to assume that the correct approach would be to also be more user-focused and simplify things and avoid confusions by being case insensitive as well.

      Also, a quick search on existing issues validates the need for this improvement.

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-1530 Backlinks should be case-sensitive

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-4289 Data being removed when a property is renamed

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-8691 Sorting in the Livetable is case sensitive

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-9367 Livetable tag cloud is not case sensitive but results inside the livetable are

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XE-47 Search should be case insensitive

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-346 getSpaceDocsNames loses the documents whose name only differs in capitalization

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-2517 Login with existing user in different case generate new user profile with LDAP

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-7364 Extension search results seem to be case sensitive

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. XCOMMONS-299 Search in local/installed/core extensions repositories should be case insensitive

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. XWIKI-7426 Search should be case insensitive on XWiki Repository

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

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              enygma Eduard Moraru
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