Creating user with username L. Kiesow fails

Looks like the URLs are not encoded properly:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in path at index 39: http://localhost:8080/admin-ng/users/L. Kiesow.json                                                                                                     
        at java.net.URI.create(URI.java:883) ~[?:?]                                                                                                                                                                                           
        at org.opencastproject.util.UrlSupport.uri(UrlSupport.java:174) ~[?:?]                                                                                                                                                                
        at org.opencastproject.adminui.endpoint.UsersEndpoint.createUser(UsersEndpoint.java:360) ~[?:?]

The post request parameters to /admin-ng/users look good:

{
	"username": "test1+test1",
	"name": "Test+2",
	"email": "debenz@uos.de",
	"password": "123",
	"roles": "[]"
}

This seems like an Opencast bug as the parameter will be created by the URLSearchParams class which already encodes the values. Encoding the username with encodeURIComponent leads to the following problem:

In this case, I need to login with the username Test%20Test.

Do we want usernames with whitespaces? Are people doing this 😱?

No, I think we don't want that :D
We should limit frontend and backend to:

[0-9a-z_-:][0-9a-z_-:]*

No, I think we don't want that :D We should limit frontend and backend to:
[0-9a-z_-:][0-9a-z_-:]*

Please don't.

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dennis531 commented on Jul 2, 2024

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