Secrets pulled from text file may include leading/trailing whitespace, including newlines

[morp86]

Environment

• Nautobot version (Docker tag too if applicable): 1.4.1
• Python version: 3.2.0
• Database platform, version: Postgress 14.5
• Middleware(s):

Expected Behavior

Authentication to GIT repo working as expected. Cloning repo.

Observed Behavior

Authentication failure.
Cmd('git') failed due to: exit code(128) cmdline: git fetch -v origin stderr: 'fatal: credential url cannot be parsed:

Update:
This issue was caused by creating the txt files using VI. As recommended by Glenn M, create the files using echo -n "My Secret String" > my_text_file.txt.

[glennmatthews]

Thanks for the report. We've talked about modifying/enhancing this feature to automatically strip leading/trailing whitespace from the raw string read from the text file, so as to avoid exactly this sort of issue. I think the number of cases where a valid Secret does want to retain such whitespace will be vanishingly small.