Usernames with quotes and double quotes create a bug in Item Owner field

[Phil -- wbtc.fr --]

Hi,

tested in 512beta1

If we have an user name with a single quote inside it, example Rock'n'Roll, you cannot edit or create an item for this user: you won't be able to save or go to another tab for this item, you'll have a "user not found" error.

If we have an user with double quotes, it doesn't work also, but for another reason: once you select the owner and validate, in the owner field the " is replaced by " .

p

[Alexander Obuhovich]

Yes, username isn't validated and we have another discussion about it already. I guess, that we need to do extra escaping of username anywhere to fix that.

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[Phil -- wbtc.fr --]

this other discussion is related, but I didn't saw anywhere in the task such problem as the one I'm reporting.

2011/2/14 Alexander Obuhovich <aik....@gmail.com>

[Dmitry A.]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for reporting and describing your issue.

While described issue is closely related to the other one from development stand point it makes more sense to address the source of the problem rather them to spend time on workarounds of the current solution.

At this point, we have worked out the solid plan for approaching most of Username related issues (if not all) in this Validation for User Login field discussion and have a task ready. Mostly likely it will go into 5.1.3 release (my suggestion), but patch might be ready before that.

In case if it's super critical to your project, we can give you a temporarily solution when Users won't be able to register with NON alpha-numeric usernames, but it won't be a complete patch for that task since there is more to it.

DA

[Alexander Obuhovich]

This doesn't seem to be related to a user login field in particular but to the kLEFTFormatter class being used to process it.

Here is the task for it http://tracker.in-portal.org/view.php?id=1014 and a discussion formed directly about it https://groups.google.com/d/topic/in-portal-bugs/O0Ln5E6E4yY/discussion .