Sanitize pdal::Metadata key names to remove some special characters #475

PDAL · Sep 19, 2014 · 49ee61c · 49ee61c
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diff --git a/include/pdal/Metadata.hpp b/include/pdal/Metadata.hpp
@@ -68,9 +68,8 @@ class MetadataNodeImpl
     friend class MetadataNode;
 
 private:
-    MetadataNodeImpl(const std::string& name) :
-        m_name(name), m_kind(MetadataType::Instance)
-    {}
+    MetadataNodeImpl(const std::string& name);
+
 
     MetadataNodeImpl() : m_kind(MetadataType::Instance)
     {}

diff --git a/src/Metadata.cpp b/src/Metadata.cpp
@@ -40,10 +40,30 @@
 #include <map>
 
 #include <boost/property_tree/xml_parser.hpp>
+#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
+
+std::string sanitize(const std::string& name)
+{
+    std::vector<std::string> to_replace = {";", ":", " ", "'", "\""};
+
+    std::string v(name);
+    for (auto c: to_replace)
+    {
+        v = boost::algorithm::replace_all_copy(v, c, "_");
+    }
+    return v;
+
+}
 
 namespace pdal
 {
 
+MetadataNodeImpl::MetadataNodeImpl(const std::string& name)
+{
+    m_kind = MetadataType::Instance;
+    m_name = sanitize(name);
+}
+
 std::string MetadataNodeImpl::toJSON() const
 {
     std::ostringstream o;