[Bug]: Import fails with long titles

[semperos]

Do I have the most recent api-cookbook code?

• I am using the latest code available on the main branch of the api-cookbook repo.

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

An import with Pivotal Tracker stories with titles that exceed 512 characters fails.

Expected Behavior

An import with Pivotal Tracker stories with titles that exceed 512 characters should succeed, truncating the original title.

Minimal Reproducible Example

TODO

Environment

• Operating system:
• Python/JavaScript version:

Further Information

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[semperos]

Development notes:

Shortcut puts different length limits on different entities:

Field	Length limit
Story name	512
Epic name	2048
Iteration name	256
Label name	1024

Furthermore, the service that validates these lengths runs on the JVM and thus uses Java's String class to perform the length check on the string. This length check (see link in the table above) returns a count of code points specific to how Java stores Unicode code points given its 16-bit representation.

In practice, this means there is the following discrepancy:

Language	String	String 'length'
Python	"test亂"	5
Java	"test亂"	5
Python	"test👍"	5
Java	"test👍"	6

In order for this importer to correctly truncate the names with length limits, the bytes of the Python string need to be interrogated to determine the "Java length" of the string, and then the string needs to be truncated such that Unicode characters aren't corrupted in the final truncated string.

[kluzny]

Adding this for others in the Pivotal Exodus, a quick script to find the rows. It's quicker to update the export than to patch the importer

path = '<redacted>/api-cookbook/pivotal-import/data/pivotal_export.csv'
spreadsheet = Roo::Spreadsheet.open(path)
sheet = spreadsheet.sheet(0)
titles = sheet.column(2)
titles.each.with_index { |title, index| puts "Index #{index}" if title.length > 500 }; nil