Trimming white spaces issue - dataverse alias

[eaquigley]

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Author Name: Elda Sotiri (@esotiri)
Original Redmine Issue: 3625, https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/3625
Original Date: 2014-03-04
Original Assignee: Xiangqing Yang

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Entering a space at the end of the alias generates the following. I would expect to trim the white space at the end of alias, if any, and allow save action.

Found an illegal character(s). Valid characters are a-Z, 0-9, '', and '-'.Found an illegal character(s). Valid characters are a-Z, 0-9, '', and '-'.

[joshhartigan]

This can probably be fixed in dataverse/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/Dataverse.java around line 45, but I'm not sure how.

[pdurbin]

@eaquigley do you have a different expectation if someone tries to create a dataverse with a trailing space via API? Via API I'd expect to see an error message indicating which characters are valid, as reported above. However, as I believe @joshhartigan is suggesting, we could do the automatic trimming for both API and GUI.

[pdurbin]

@eaquigley oh, sorry, it was Elda who asserted an expectation above. I think @raprasad simply used your GitHub accounts to import this issue from Redmine.

[mheppler]

Found a JSF-related, suggested solution on Stack Overflow.

[pdurbin]

In case it's of interest, I just wrote some tests of validation logic here: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/ff7770b3cc24bcc88b868dcc1248c5d43ad39264/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/authorization/providers/builtin/BuiltinUserTest.java (hasn't been merged yet, it's part of my pull request at #2919 ).

[pdurbin]

@joshhartigan are you still interested in working on this bug?

[pdurbin]

Come to think of it. I think the behavior described in the original report is what we want. We show an error when an invalid character is entered for a dataverse alias. Vote to close.