[HOLD for payment 2023-09-04] [$1000] System throws an error while requesting money if a long description & marchant value is given

[m-natarajan]

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Action Performed:

1. Open an existing chat
2. Click on '+' icon
3. Click on 'Request money' link
4. Enter amount & click on 'Next' button
5. Click on description > enter over 300 characters value > click on 'Save' button
6. Click on 'Show more' button
7. Click on Marchant > enter over 300 characters value > click on 'Save' button
8. Click on 'Request' button

Expected Result:

Money requests should be successful

Actual Result:

System throws an error

Workaround:

Unknown

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:**1.3.56-3
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
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

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Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @Natnael-Guchima
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1692686163590699

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

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Triggered auto assignment to @joelbettner (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[pradeepmdk]

Proposal

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

System throws an error while requesting money if a long description & marchant value is given

What is the root cause of that problem?

RequestMoney API this throwing size Exceeded

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

we need to limit the character length in the the UI

App/src/pages/iou/MoneyRequestMerchantPage.js

Line 108 in c053381

<TextInput

maxLength