[Rt-devel] [BUG]: whitespace in custom fields not allowed by REST protocol.

[Jesse Vincent]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 09:11:26AM -0400, Dmitri Tikhonov wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I noticed that both /usr/bin/rt and RT::Interface::REST do not support
> whitespace in attribute names.  However, whitespace is allowed in Custom
> field.  Take, for instance, rt.cpan.org:
> 
>   CF-Severity: Critical
>   CF-Broken in: 0.05
>   CF-Fixed in:
> 
> The problem is with $field variable, which is set to
> 
>   '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*'
> 
> One solution is to allow whitespace for custom fields:
> 
>   '(?:[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*|CF-[a-zA-Z0-9_ -]*)'

I'd take a patch to do this. Thanks

> 
> Another solution is to disallow whitespace in custom fields.  My point
> is, REST should be consistent with RT rules, otherwise it becomes
> unusable.  (Try doing 'edit' on CPAN RT tickets).
> 
> Comments?
> 
>   - Dmitri.
> 
> 
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