Cause (Documented platform behavior): Chroma collection names follow S3-bucket-like naming rules.
Fix status: documented_behavior
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chroma-core/chroma/e122af79fd42216d6319ff248914a22142c4ab49/chromadb/api/segment.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): check_index_name enforces 3-63 chars, alphanumeric start/end, only alphanumerics/underscore/hyphen/period, no "..", not an IPv4 address.
Search phrasings: chroma Expected collection name that contains 3-63 characters; chromadb invalid collection name; chroma collection name email spaces error
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Collections named after files, emails or UUID fragments fail to create.
- Context
- Product: Chroma Component: collection name validation (check_index_name) Operation: create_collection / get_or_create_collection with generated names Affected versions: unknown Environment: unknown Exception: ValueError Packages: chromadb source checked at main (see SHA) Trigger: Name shorter than 3 or longer than 63 characters, contains spaces/@/slashes, starts or ends with a non-alphanumeric, has "..", or is an IPv4 address.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- Expected collection name that (1) contains 3-63 characters, (2) starts and ends with an alphanumeric character, (3) otherwise contains only alphanumeric characters, underscores or hyphens (-), (4) contains no two consecutive periods (..) and (5) is not a valid IPv4 address
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [Chroma] ValueError "Expected collection name that (1) contains 3-63 characters, (2) starts and ends with an alphanumeric character ..." for names derived from file names/user ids
Recommended action: Sanitize names: lowercase, replace invalid chars with "-", trim to 63, ensure alphanumeric start/end (or hash long names).
Option: Sanitize generated collection names [evidence: official_recommended_action]
Applies when: Dynamic collection naming
Steps:
1. re.sub(r"[^a-zA-Z0-9._-]", "-", name).strip("-._")[:63]
Expected: Name passes validation
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- 29d6b2bc-0764-4614-857a-d03fc76ed7cd
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Sanitize names: lowercase, replace invalid chars with "-", trim to 63, ensure alphanumeric start/end (or hash long names). Option: Sanitize generated collection names [evidence: official_recommended_action] Applies when: Dynamic collection naming Steps: 1. re.sub(r"[^a-zA-Z0-9._-]", "-", name).strip("-._")[:63] Expected: Name passes validation
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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