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[Duncan Brown <>]

Hi Benn,


> On Nov 30, 2019, at 3:37 PM, Benn Oshrin <> wrote:
> 
> 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 can reproduce the issue and opened a JIRA at 
<https://todos.internet2.edu/browse/CO-1835>

> 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?

Yes, the only instance of this username is the one with the space in it:

MariaDB [registry]> select identifier,quote(identifier),type,status from 
cm_identifiers where identifier like 'emvarun%';
+------------+-------------------+--------+--------+
| identifier | quote(identifier) | type   | status |
+------------+-------------------+--------+--------+
| emvarun    | 'emvarun '        | GitHub | A      |
+------------+-------------------+--------+--------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

Cheers,
Duncan.

> 
> 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...
>> -- 
>> Duncan Brown                              Room 263-1, Physics Department
>> Charles Brightman Professor of Physics     Syracuse University, NY 13244
>> http://dabrown.expressions.syr.edu                   Phone: 315 443 5993

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Duncan Brown                              Room 263-1, Physics Department
Charles Brightman Professor of Physics     Syracuse University, NY 13244
http://dabrown.expressions.syr.edu                   Phone: 315 443 5993