PropertiesBeanDefinitionReader bug won't allow certain views

[asmith]

If you are using a ResourceBundleViewResolver and you want to use view names that contain a "." (that's a dot), you are out of luck.

The offending code is located in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Properti esBeanDefinitionReader starting at line 253:

public int registerBeanDefinitions(Map map, String prefix, String resourceDescription) throws BeansException {
		if (prefix == null) {
			prefix = "";
		}
		int beanCount = 0;

		Set keys = map.keySet();
		Iterator itr = keys.iterator();
		while (itr.hasNext()) {
			String key = (String) itr.next();
			if (key.startsWith(prefix)) {
				// Key is of form prefix<name>.property
				String nameAndProperty = key.substring&#40;prefix.length&#40;&#41;&#41;;
				int sepIndx = nameAndProperty.indexOf&#40;SEPARATOR&#41;;
				if &#40;sepIndx != -1&#41; &#123;
					String beanName = nameAndProperty.substring&#40;0, sepIndx&#41;;

The problem is your view doesn't start with a prefix but the tokenizer steps in and chops the view name off at the first "." on line 266. It could be fixed by making sure prefix has a positive length on line 263.

Until then -- no dots in your views defined by ResourceBundles.

-a.

[Juergen Hoeller]

Good point! Actually, the separator is between bean name and property name: The only fix requires is to use "lastIndexOf" rather than "indexOf" (a property name is not allowed to contain a dot). I've just fixed this, and also added corresponding tests.

Juergen