restrictions on crowd group names

Question

Is there any built-in functionality to Crowd to restrict the types of characters used when creating groups?  We have an application that connects into crowd and it allows users to create groups with special characters - causing major issues for us when we do synchronizations between Crowd and JIRA.

Would like to understand if this can be prevented on the Crowd side, or if we need to build in validation on the application side.

Gianna Migliorisi · Answer

thank you @Joseph Walton !  This error was completely different from what I was receiving though, which may be why it was so annoying to track down.  We need to upgrade our JIRA instance, we're running 6.0.8.

joe · Answer

If the problem is with unmatched braces, you may be running in to https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-33170 , which has a fix available.

JustinK · Answer

Thanks for the further info here @Gianna Migliorisi! Wow, I would never expect anyone to be in a group that had that as part of the name! But as I mentioned above, there is nothing out of the box that will let you control group names, if you do want to get you hands a little dirty and write some extensions to Crowd I can think of a few ways to do this, inclusive of the option I gave you above.