GWT preloader doesn't use percent-encoding

[Frosty-J]

I noticed today a filename containing a semicolon fails to load on GWT as its path in assets.txt contains a literal ; instead of %3B. This and other reserved characters should be encoded to avoid issues.

libgdx/backends/gdx-backends-gwt/src/com/badlogic/gdx/backends/gwt/preloader/PreloaderBundleGenerator.java

Line 125 in 9707171

String pathOrig = asset.filePathOrig.replace('\\', '/').replace(assetOutputPath, "").replaceFirst("assets/", "");

It would also be an idea to transform the paths to lowercase, though the superDev server is case-sensitive even on Windows so any errors from that should be caught pretty quickly.

Sure, asset names shouldn't contain funny characters to begin with, but they do.

[venktre]

Can you assign this task to me?
It would be better if you could give me more guidance.

[Frosty-J]

No-one's rushing to do anything about this - it can informally be your issue. One possible solution could be:

URLEncoder.encode("Hey; wh@t?!", "UTF-8").replace("+", "%20");

Returns: "Hey%3B%20wh%40t%3F%21"