Trim profile names when setting them

ts/components/ProfileEditor.tsx

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright 2021 Signal Messenger, LLC
+// Copyright 2021-2022 Signal Messenger, LLC
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 
 import React, { useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import {
 import { Spinner } from './Spinner';
 import { UsernameSaveState } from '../state/ducks/conversationsEnums';
 import { MAX_USERNAME, MIN_USERNAME } from '../types/Username';
+import { isWhitespace, trim } from '../util/whitespaceStringUtil';
 
 export enum EditState {
   None = 'None',
@@ -286,7 +287,16 @@ export const ProfileEditor = ({
     (avatar: Uint8Array | undefined) => {
       setAvatarBuffer(avatar);
       setEditState(EditState.None);
-      onProfileChanged(stagedProfile, avatar);
+      onProfileChanged(
+        {
+          ...stagedProfile,
+          firstName: trim(stagedProfile.firstName),
+          familyName: stagedProfile.familyName
+            ? trim(stagedProfile.familyName)
+            : undefined,
+        },
+        avatar
+      );
     },
     [onProfileChanged, stagedProfile]
   );
@@ -422,7 +432,8 @@ export const ProfileEditor = ({
     const shouldDisableSave =
       !stagedProfile.firstName ||
       (stagedProfile.firstName === fullName.firstName &&
-        stagedProfile.familyName === fullName.familyName);
+        stagedProfile.familyName === fullName.familyName) ||
+      isWhitespace(stagedProfile.firstName);
 
     content = (
       <>

ts/services/writeProfile.ts

@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@
 
 import dataInterface from '../sql/Client';
 import type { ConversationType } from '../state/ducks/conversations';
+import * as Errors from '../types/errors';
+import * as log from '../logging/log';
 import { computeHash } from '../Crypto';
 import { encryptProfileData } from '../util/encryptProfileData';
 import { getProfile } from '../util/getProfile';
 import { singleProtoJobQueue } from '../jobs/singleProtoJobQueue';
-import * as Errors from '../types/errors';
+import { strictAssert } from '../util/assert';
-import * as log from '../logging/log';
+import { isWhitespace } from '../util/whitespaceStringUtil';
 
 export async function writeProfile(
   conversation: ConversationType,
@@ -32,6 +34,11 @@ export async function writeProfile(
     firstName,
   } = conversation;
 
+  strictAssert(
+    !isWhitespace(String(conversation.firstName)),
+    'writeProfile: Cannot set an empty profile name'
+  );
+
   const [profileData, encryptedAvatarData] = await encryptProfileData(
     conversation,
     avatarBuffer

ts/util/whitespaceStringUtil.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+// Copyright 2022 Signal Messenger, LLC
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+
+const WHITESPACE = new Set([
+  ' ',
+  '\u200E', // left-to-right mark
+  '\u200F', // right-to-left mark
+  '\u2007', // figure space
+  '\u200B', // zero-width space
+  '\u2800', // braille blank
+]);
+
+export function trim(str: string): string {
+  let start = 0;
+  let end = str.length - 1;
+
+  for (start; start < str.length; start += 1) {
+    const char = str[start];
+    if (!WHITESPACE.has(char)) {
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+
+  for (end; end > 0; end -= 1) {
+    const char = str[end];
+    if (!WHITESPACE.has(char)) {
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (start > 0 || end < str.length - 1) {
+    return str.substring(start, end + 1);
+  }
+
+  return str;
+}
+
+export function isWhitespace(str: string): boolean {
+  for (let i = 0; i < str.length; i += 1) {
+    const char = str[i];
+    if (!WHITESPACE.has(char)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}