Cryptic error when creating a team with a whitespace via api

[kolaente]

• Gitea version (or commit ref): b9ae16d
• Operating system: Debian
• Can you reproduce the bug at https://try.gitea.io:
  • Probably

Description

When creating a new team via the api which contains a whitespace, the api returns the following cryptic error:

[{"fieldNames":["Name"],"classification":"AlphaDashDotError","message":"AlphaDashDot"}]

After digging around in the code for two hours I finally found out the error was caused by a whitespace in the name.

I'd whish to get a more specific error message in that case, googling didn't help much either.

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[lunny]

Maybe added a not empty or required to the form tag?

[kolaente]

@lunny sounds like a good idea

[davidgiga1993]

I'm facing the same issues. I would expect an API to give a proper error message why the validation failed. Otherwise one has to brute force it until it works..

[wxiaoguang]

Isn't the message clear? AlphaDashDot means the field should contains alpha or dot or dash .....