path name rules

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Kay,

> > > > I am developing D-Bus services for BlueZ. We would like define paths
> > > > names based on bluetooth device address, eg:
> > > > "/org/bluez/Manager/00:0D:88:BE:89:BA/Network".However, according with
> > > > D-Bus specification it is NOT possible use the character ":" in the
> > > > middle of the path name. Is there a reason for doesn't allow the
> > > > character ":" in the middle of the path name?
> > > 
> > > Out of curiosity, why not just skip the ":" characters in the device
> > > address names or convert them to underlines when used in a D-BUS object
> > > path?
> > 
> > this is the human readable way for IEEE addresses and I don't see the
> > need for an application (especially for script languages like Python and
> > Perl) to convert them first. Obfuscation is not really helpful.
> 
> We do the underscore thing in HAL for ethernet interfaces too:
>   info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_11_25_d7_3d_61'

my alternative would be using 00-0D-88-BE-89-BA, because it is as
readable as with the colon. However this seems to be also not allowed.

Regards

Marcel