Number of digits are not consistent

[shivanibhanwal]

Hi I am using "active_model_otp" gem and that uses internally "rotp" gem. As per the active_model_otp gem default code it should be generating 6 digit code. While I am doing extensive testing, I that found many times 3 or 4 digit code is getting generated.
And then it fails in VERIFY section. It is causing alot of trouble. Infact the developer of active_model_otp has also implemented PADDING by default but still it is not doing any padding and I am still getting 3 digit code.

For reference here is the link where I have posted question on active_model_otp
heapsource/active_model_otp#12

https://github.com/heapsource/active_model_otp/blob/4ec7c5686211be6cf9a08dc022c69ca7eddf077a/lib/active_model/one_time_password.rb#L24

https://github.com/heapsource/active_model_otp/blob/4ec7c5686211be6cf9a08dc022c69ca7eddf077a/lib/active_model/one_time_password.rb#L41

Thanks
Shivani

[mdp]

Hey Shivani,

Not sure what could be happening here. Do you have any example code where it's showing this behavior?

I wrote up a quick test and didn't see any delivered without the padding.
https://gist.github.com/2bb96f80f2d845354e90

Is it possible ActiveRecord is converting it to an integer?

Thanks

[shivanibhanwal]

Hi Mark

I do not have example code for it. But it is mostly same as what is shown on the ActiveModel_otp gem.
I think you might be right about the Activerecord conversion. I will debug that gem and see what is happening before and after the activerecord call.

Thank you will update once I will get something.

[shivanibhanwal]

@mdp You were right it was due to dataType of the table. As I had it as integer and that was causing this issue in the padding. Thanks for the help!!