A user, saper, encountered an error when trying to create a topic with the title “No such property: vcs for class: org.gradle.plugins.ide.idea.model.IdeaProject_Decorated”. The error message read “Title is invalid; try to be a little more descriptive”. saper questioned why this title was deemed not descriptive, as it is a complete error message from the build process.
watchmanmonitor suggested that enabling the site setting “allow duplicate topic titles” might help. saper also discovered that the issue might be due to the title containing too many dots, as they had to modify another title to avoid this error.
codinghorror explained that the issue is caused by the regex used to check for “too long” words, which considers a phrase with many periods as a single word. They suggested that the regex should be changed to consider periods as word breaks.
saper pointed out that this change could allow for workarounds to filters, but riking argued that this is intended to stop low-effort posting. eviltrout provided a commit that allows the original title to work.
I filed another bug today and it turns out that it does not like too many dots. So instead of org.gradle.internal.graph.CachingDirectedGraphWalker I had to use CachingDirectedGraphWalker. Not so cool for Java programming tool forum
It is because a phrase with a lot of periods in between is considered a word, and a “too long” word. This has come up a few times @eviltrout and that regex should be changed to consider a period a “space” for the purposes of that check.
The goal is to block topics that have a title of aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa but the check needs to be a bit smarter about what it considers to be word breaks.
Workarounds are intentionally not, erm, worked around for these because it’s there to stop low-effort posting. Implementing a workaround implies effort. “You had to try, so we’ll just give it to you.”
