Missing/incorrect exception handling and error message for validity check of email address format
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I noticed that in the current version of AB3, some invalid email addresses are not detected and can be added to a person without any error message.
(Reference to valid email address format: https://help.xmatters.com/ondemand/trial/valid_email_format.htm)
The current constraint for email address format is as followed (it is only shown in error message, should be added into UG for clarification):
"Emails should be of the format local-part@domain and adhere to the following constraints:
- The local-part should only contain alphanumeric characters and these special characters, excluding the parentheses, (!#$%&'*+/=?`{|}~^.-) .
- This is followed by a '@' and then a domain name. The domain name must:
- be at least 2 characters long
- start and end with alphanumeric characters
- consist of alphanumeric characters, a period or a hyphen for the characters in between, if any."
Examples of these undetected invalid email address formats include:
- Starting or ending with a special character. E.g.
abc-@mail.com
and.abc@mail.com
- Consecutive special letters. E.g.
abc..def@mail.com
- Missing top-level domain. E.g.
abc.def@mail
- Domain shorter than 2 characters. E.g.
abc.def@mail.c
Example of wrongly rejected email address format:
- Domain with more than 1 dot (every dot followed by at least two characters from a to z). E.g.
e123456@u.nus.edu
I think that it will be better if the email address format accepted in AB3 can be modified accordingly to detect the better account for actual email addresses in reality.
@Zhang-Yunjie thanks for the suggestion.