dropbox / dropbox/dropbox-sdk-java
SDK doesn't handle Unicode control characters.
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Description
Basically I have a code that does this:
```
private final DbxUserFilesRequests files;
@SneakyThrows
public Metadata getMetadata(String path) {
return files.getMetadata(path);
}
```
This works for normal paths that don't contain control characters.
However, if you supply path that contains the Unicode Control Characters that aren't escaped:
```
/SomeFolder/acces
s_token.txt
```
It spits out this issue:
```
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: String 'path' does not match pattern
at com.dropbox.core.v2.files.GetMetadataArg.(GetMetadataArg.java:58)
at com.dropbox.core.v2.files.GetMetadataArg.(GetMetadataArg.java:80)
at com.dropbox.core.v2.files.DbxUserFilesRequests.getMetadata(DbxUserFilesRequests.java:1602)
```
But if you escape the path from unicode characters like this:
```
acces\u2028s_token.txt
```
It seems that the library escapes the backslash character, and causes the API to return the Malformed path response.
```
"error": {
".tag": "path",
"path": {
".tag": "malformed_path"
}
}
```
Unfortunately, I don't really have a choice in renaming the file. Is there a solution we can have to handle the unicode control? Like another method that allows us to supply a string that won't be processed by the SDK?
I know from cURL, it's possible to use the escaped form of the unicode character and get the metadata. However, it's just not a choice I have from the java SDK since it won't do it for me, and it doesn't like the escaped version of unicode.
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