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[Benn Oshrin <>]

Hi Duncan,

Trailing whitespaces should be removed from Identifiers, as per

 https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/COmanage/Normalizing+Data

Please open a JIRA, including details of how the user created the 
identifier in the first place.

I'm a little confused as to why you can't fix the entry, though. 
Identifier availability checks do not consider whitespace (though maybe 
they should), and normalization will only apply to the record being 
saved, not the record already persisted. You've double checked that the 
username (without the space) isn't already attached to a record?

Along with UTF-8 names, we also occasionally test for little Bobby Tables.

Thanks,

-Benn-

On 11/19/19 4:52 PM, Duncan Brown wrote:
> Hi Benn,
>
> I created an extended type 'GitHub' which is used to store the user's 
> GitHub username for use by the provisioning module. The enrollment flow 
> asks the user for their ID when they register. I had a user add a space 
> to their name, so the field contained 'Username ' rather than 
> 'Username'. When I tried to change their ID to remove the space and 
> save, COmanage complains that the identifier is already in use:
>
>
>
>
> Is is expected behavior, or a bug I should file in JIRA?
>
> Cheers,
> Duncan.
>
> p.s. you'll be pleased to know that COmanage is hardened against most 
> standard XKCD exploits...
>
>
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>
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