altstoreio / altstoreio/AltStore

Whitespace in "Add-Source-Dialog" prevents adding source

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Description

Problem:

When manually adding a new source to AltStore with whitespace at front or back it will fail without an error.

Possible solution:

Trim prepending and appending whitespace from user input to prevent this bug.

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Research direction

Start at the Add-Source-Dialog input handling and reproduce the failure using leading and trailing whitespace in a source URL or value. The issue is done when manually entered sources with surrounding whitespace are accepted successfully and the existing failure no longer occurs.

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Assessment

Tech stack
swift
Domain
mobile
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
72/100

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