[PAID] [$1000] Leading whitespaces aren’t truncated while saving email/phone number in new contact method page

[kavimuru]

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Action Performed:

1. Go to Settings -> Profile -> contact methods
2. Click on new contact methods
3. Add email with spaces at front e.g “ sharmashim123@gmail.com”
4. Type in password and save
5. Now, it should redirect to contact methods page
6. Notice that the leading spaces aren’t removed while displaying email/phone number

Expected Result:

Leading or trailing spaces should be removed and email.phone number should be displayed accordingly for better UI

Actual Result :

Leading spaces makes improper indentation while display.

Workaround:

Can the user still use Expensify without this being fixed? Have you informed them of the workaround?

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: 1.3.3
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

Screen.Recording.2023-04-20.at.7.36.41.PM.mov

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @ashimsharma10
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1681998814607449

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Triggered auto assignment to @strepanier03 (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

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[dhairyasenjaliya]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

• Leading whitespaces aren’t truncated while saving email/phone number in new contact method page

What is the root cause of that problem?

• We are adding trim only while validating the submit button rather than validating for submit button we should validate at time of text change only so this will make sure to remove all white space before storing/displaying actualy value

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

• On NewContactMethodPage.js -> we need to trim value at onLoginChange() and remove trim from validateForm() since we are limiting the white space at first place so need to to extra trim for submit button

Changes

        onLoginChange(login) {
+        const validate = login.trim();
       this.setState({login:validate});
   }

   /**
   * Determine whether the form is valid
   *
   * @returns {Boolean}
   */
validateForm() {
-        const login = this.state.login.trim();
+       const login = this.state.login
       const phoneLogin = LoginUtils.getPhoneNumberWithoutSpecialChars(login);

       return (Permissions.canUsePasswordlessLogins(this.props.betas) || this.state.password)
           && (Str.isValidEmail(login) || Str.isValidPhone(phoneLogin));
   }      

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

• We could also display an error message bottom of each input (this is not the scope of this issue but we can add it here)

[PrashantMangukiya]

Proposal

Posting proposal early as per new guidelines

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

Leading whitespaces aren not truncated while saving email/phone number in new contact method page.

What is the root cause of that problem?

We can see within onLoginChange() we do not trim login before save to state, so login value will be with leading and trailing space if entered.

App/src/pages/settings/Profile/Contacts/NewContactMethodPage.js

Lines 68 to 70 in 4f7cfdb

	onLoginChange(login) {
	this.setState({login});
	}

Also during submitForm() we do not trim this.state.login as shown below,

App/src/pages/settings/Profile/Contacts/NewContactMethodPage.js

Lines 85 to 92 in 4f7cfdb

	submitForm() {
	// If this login already exists, just go back.
	if (lodashGet(this.props.loginList, this.state.login)) {
	Navigation.navigate(ROUTES.SETTINGS_CONTACT_METHODS);
	return;
	}
	User.addNewContactMethodAndNavigate(this.state.login, this.state.password);
	}

So User.addNewContactMethodAndNavigate() method will save login value with leading and trailing space. This is the root cause of the problem.

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

To solve this we can think to trim login while save to state at line 69 within onLoginChange().

But it is not advisable because user may enter Email Or Phone number within login field. So if user typing email then trim() during save to state will be ok, because generally blank space not comes within email so user will not try to enter blank space within email.

But if user enter Phone number then user have habit to enter phone number like "123 4567 8901" i.e. with space. So if we trim value during onChange, then as soon as user type space within phone number onLoginChange() will trim space during save to state. So it will make bad user experience and user will not able to enter space within phone number.

So better approach is to trim login within submitForm() function and use trimmed login value for lodashGet() and addNewContactMethodAndNavigate() api. So modified submitForm() function code looks as shown below.

submitForm() {
    // Trim leading and trailing space from login
    const login = this.state.login.trim();

    // If this login already exists, just go back.
    if (lodashGet(this.props.loginList, login)) {
        Navigation.navigate(ROUTES.SETTINGS_CONTACT_METHODS);
        return;
    }
    User.addNewContactMethodAndNavigate(login, this.state.password);
}

So this will solve the issue i.e. truncate leading/trailing white space from email or phone number, and allows to enter space within phone number. Result video attached below.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

None.

Results

Truncate leading/trailing space from email.

Email.mov

Truncate leading/trailing space from Phone and allow space in between phone number.

Phone.mov

Phone2.mov

[MelvinBot]

Looks like something related to react-navigation may have been mentioned in this issue discussion.

As a reminder, please make sure that all proposals are not workarounds and that any and all attempt to fix the issue holistically have been made before proceeding with a solution. Proposals to change our DeprecatedCustomActions.js files should not be accepted.

Feel free to drop a note in #expensify-open-source with any questions.

[strepanier03]

Able to recreate following instructions but oddly I have the email listed twice, once with the extra spaced and once without.

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Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @Santhosh-Sellavel (External)