[katello-devel] Length limits for common things

[Bryan Kearney]

On 05/23/2011 05:40 PM, Partha Aji wrote:
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> I am working on a bug dealing with length limits for environment names. Thought this would be a good opportunity to standardize lengths across board. By default rails migration scripts sets the column length for strings to 255 characters. Going by spacewalk experience the standard seems to be
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> 1) Name/Label/Other strings- 128 Varchar
> 2) Description  - 255 Varchar
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> We might have to fix the UI to provide the ability to show 128 characters but that is still better than having a DB exception raised for crossing the column limit.
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> I am planning to add the length validation to KatelloNameValidator since its already used for most of the model names. I might also add a KatelloDescriptionValidator and have it do length checks for descriptions..
> If any one has any issues with the suggested lengths please respond.
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Just to verify. .the ./app/models/katello_name_format_validator.rb is 
invoked at the glue layer, so both UI and API will get the validation?

-- bk