[jifty-devel] Moniker name restrictions

[Jesse Vincent]

Mikko,

I'm so sorry you got bit by that. Would you be willing to accept a commit bit to help improve Jifty? - I just need the output of htpasswd -n (off list ;)

Best,
jesse
------- Original message -------
From: Mikko Lipasti <mikko.lipasti at polarcom.fi>
Sent: 26.7.'07,  23:21

> Hello list,
> 
> I was surprised to find my template/action silently fail when using monikers with a dash, e.g. "01-something". Replacing the dash with an underscore fixed 
the problem.
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/Jifty-0.70422/lib/Jifty/Manual/Glossary.pod#moniker:
> "A moniker is an arbitrary-length nonempty string containing no semicolons."
> This should be updated to forbid dashes.
> 
> Moreover, Jifty->web->new_action should warn (or die even) if moniker name contains forbidden characters. Currently, there's no warning, the action(s) just 
don't run.
> 
> 
> Test results: (using Jifty::Test::WWW::Mechanize)
> "0_bottom": ok
> "0-bottom": silent failure
> "0;bottom": ok (surprise!)
> 
> 
> - Mikko
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