Handle Unicode character in project generation

[snicoll]

See spring-io/start.spring.io#990

I don't know how easy it would be to map the characters to something that would work but it's certainly worth researching. Or we could chose to fail upfront, rather than failing later as we do now.

[wilkinsona]

The Normalizer-based technique described in https://www.baeldung.com/java-remove-accents-from-text could help here.

[okan35]

Hello, if noone is working on this I could take it as a first timer contribution.

[snicoll]

The issue is yours @okan35. Thank you very much and let us know if you have any question.

[okan35]

Hello, so basically I am trying to run the initializr-generator just so that at least I can the api for generation but I haven't been successful.

What I have tried so far is doing ./mvnw clean install and then in initializr-generator/target directory do java -jar initializr-generator-0.13.0-SNAPSHOT.jar but this always gives me no main manifest attribute, in C:/Users/pc/Desktop/okan/spring initializr/initializr/initializr-generator/target/initializr-generator-0.13.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
Do you have any suggestions regarding how I can get generator to work as I have also added just the generator in a new project like it is said in documentation but that also hasn't been successful.

So I just need to be able make it work basically, what would you suggest regarding this ?

By the way I was able to start.spring.io even though I could not get the UI strangely.

[snicoll]

@okan35 thanks for the feedback. There are a number of tests in initializr-web, including HTTP-based tests that you can improve to validate that unicode characters are handled properly. initializr-generator is a "simple" java library, not an app.

If you want to play around with curl against the service, you can give initializr-service-sample in this repository a try maybe?

[okan35]

So basically I should not be providing a fix but just add an additional test in initializr-web ?

Also I used normalizer basically in ProjectRequest class as I believe that is the entrypoint for user's settings.

I used it as below I believe that is kind of it since I could not really run the whole initializr web UI to generate a project.

public String getName() { return Normalizer.normalize(this.name,Normalizer.Form.NFKD); }

public void setName(String name) { this.name = Normalizer.normalize(name,Normalizer.Form.NFKD); }

[nirbhay24]

@snicoll I have added a commit, with Idea that we should sanitize input, and convert accents character to normal char.
And have raised a PR for same let me know if it looks fine.

[snicoll]

Closing in favor of PR #1345