App crashes on trying to post comment containing special characters.

Question

App crashes on trying to post comment containing special characters.

Closed this issue 10 years ago · 6 comments

Trying to post a comment with something like a "ä" crashes the app.
Logcat output: 03-22 16:31:53.766: E/AndroidRuntime(1475): java.lang.RuntimeException: An error occured while executing doInBackground()

Answer 1 · 2014-03-26T18:47:34.000Z

This also interferes with out elastic search and adds null comments to the comment list.

Answer 2 · 2014-04-04T16:15:00.000Z

When posting only locally, special characters work; moreover, when saved as favourite, serializers correctly save and load the comments with special characters. This means this is an elasticSearch issue.

Answer 3 · 2014-04-04T22:53:34.000Z

In that case, should we just disable inputting of special characters in the app? (if possible)

Answer 4 · 2014-04-04T22:58:56.000Z

Thats the current plan. This looks promising, I'll give it a try after pounding out this sequence diagram.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14438237/how-to-block-the-special-character-and-smaller-case-characters-in-android-editte

Answer 5 · 2014-04-05T01:10:31.000Z

Fixed by restricting the chars that can be entered in any user input field. Until ElasticSearch can be updated, make sure any new EditText items have android:digits="@string/legal_chars" in their xml block.

Answer 6 · 2014-04-05T01:13:18.000Z

Sorry Germany, Japan, and Russia.