Android Question max length of string > map > file?

[Dave O]

Hi all,

I'm adding the ability to attach notes to objects in one of my apps, so it would be an EditText view receiving the typed input, a string saving it temporarily, then saving the string in a Map object that is saved to a file using File.WriteMap.

My main question is: Should I be enforcing a max length? That is, if I don't, is something likely to blow up beyond NNN characters?

Related question: Do I need to make sure that delimiter characters like double quotes in the text don't screw things up? (e.g. replace a double quote with %20 like HTML does, and then restore it later on load)?

Thanks!

 

[thedesolatesoul]

It shouldnt be a problem. There are no known issues related to this.
The length of the string is probably just limited by the memory.
I havent tried with double quotes inside the string, but im sure it is automatically escaped otherwise things like JSON wouldnt work.

 

[sorex]

Limiting things is always a good option to prevent issues.

%20 is space, double quote should be %22 but I don't see a reason to replace that?