From 49ee61c1aa372bd4d8657270e3d155ca5eda54ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Howard Butler <howard@hobu.co>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:27:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Sanitize pdal::Metadata key names to remove some special
 characters #475

---
 include/pdal/Metadata.hpp |  5 ++---
 src/Metadata.cpp          | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/pdal/Metadata.hpp b/include/pdal/Metadata.hpp
index 38cdab3e61..33f6969705 100644
--- 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
index 81e3e424ac..775d02e357 100644
--- 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;