RTC SCM Character Encoding and Line Delimiters when creating files programatically

Jazzuser user (68●4●47) | asked Aug 17 '17, 12:47 a.m.

Hello All,

We have a usecase wherein we have to checkin and deliver set of given files to RTC SCM stream.

currently, we have the logic to copy the contents of the file : IFileContent storedzipContent = contentManager.storeContent(
                 IFileContent.ENCODING_UTF_8,
                 FileLineDelimiter.LINE_DELIMITER_NONE,
                 new VersionedContentManagerByteArrayInputStreamPovider(
                         contents.toByteArray()), null, fMonitor);

We are using the same encoding type and line delimiter for all the types of file : .txt, .zip, .xlsx, .docx etc

However the files are getting created and checkedIn in the stream, we create a repository WS and load this set of files, checkedIn.

We try to change the contents of the file,in the pending changes view (by double clicking on the file --> view difference window), we see that the property of the file will be set to Windows default : cp1252 and line delimiter as platform/none accordingly.

Are there any issues, in future like resolving merge conflicts etc(or with any RTC eclipse functionalities), if we have encoding type as UTF-8 and line delimiter as none for all the files ?

Please suggest.

Thanks.

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Ralph Schoon (62.7k●3●36●43) | answered Aug 18 '17, 3:13 a.m.
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I think the encoding and the line delimiters are important for compare merge operations. But only an experienced Jazz SCM developer could tell for sure.

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Jazzuser user commented Aug 18 '17, 4:20 a.m.

Thanks for the reply Ralph. We wanted the encoding to be of windows 1252 :
IFileContent storedzipContent = contentManager.storeContent(
                    "windows-1252",
                 FileLineDelimiter.LINE_DELIMITER_NONE,
                 new VersionedContentManagerByteArrayInputStreamPovider(
                         contents.toByteArray()), null, fMonitor);

Can we have this ? this is not visible as a default option from RTC API ?

Ralph Schoon commented Aug 18 '17, 4:54 a.m.

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I don't know. Since the Eclipse client supports that, I think you should be able to do that. Again, I typically make sure to create content the way I want it with the Tools and the I look into their representation in the API. That s usually the easiest way to make sure what you want works.

Sorry, but that is pretty much all I can say.

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