altstoreio / altstoreio/AltStore
Whitespace in "Add-Source-Dialog" prevents adding source
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- Dominant language
- Swift
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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