Topic started with "/" not possible

Hello,

running the following line of code :

if (!namespaceManager.TopicExists(topic))
{
    namespaceManager.CreateTopic(topic);
}

where topic is a string that contains "/mytopic", I receive the following error :

The entity name or path cannot contain '/' as prefix or suffix. The supplied value is '/mytopic'.

What's the reason why a topic can't starts with "/" character. The error speaks about entity name and path so I suppose that also queue and subscription name can't start with "/" character.

Why is there this limitation ? What's the reason ?

Paolo Patierno

Paolo Patierno