more helpful "bad username" error message

[kate_nepveu]

Title
more helpful "bad username" error message

Short, concise description of the idea
Change error message to "[bad username "foo" in tag]", as suggested by ruakh here: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/664149.html?thread=8727125#t8727125

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Comments

[sofiaviolet]

This would be useful to me. Generally speaking, the bad username is only one or two letters/numbers off from the intended one, and I could probably guess what was meant if I had ever seen the username before.

If that made sense. ^-^ It doesn't seem to me that this would be hard to implement.

[burr86]

Why not just [burr8612312] or something similar, instead of the error message? So it looks less out of place?

[sofiaviolet]

Ooh, good idea!

[burr86]

We do, if it's a valid username form (less than 15 chars, only letters/numbers/hyphens), but "Bad username in LJ tag" appears when you do something like lj user="reallylongusernameover15char" or lj user="burr&86" or something, I believe.

[kunzite1]

there're several types of output:

kunzite1
kunzite1
valid

kunzite1
kunzite1
valid

lj_nonusermoo
lj_nonusermoo
valid, non-existent username

invalid, no =

invalid, no =

kunzite1'
kunzite1'
invalid, stray '

longerthanfifteen
longerthanfifteen
invalid, longer than fifteen characters

so. an idea would be to return an escaped version of the input if it finds an error. that, or, if it knows what type of LJ tag that it is, just return the "Bad username 'foo' in LJ user tag" idea.

[vvalkyri]

Cool.

[kate_nepveu]

Thank you, that's very useful. I agree that an escaped version of the input for the "no =" situations, and a "bad username [foo]" in the last two situations.

[kunzite1]

yay for agreement.

also, re table: i likes testing and data collectionalness.

[abates]

Sounds good to me!

[turlough]

Yes please!!!