[Building Sakai] Bug: 2+ Custom Parameters Separated by New Lines Broken after Saving sakai.basiclti Tool

[Raymond Naseef]

Hi All,

I found a bug to report, and am not sure if I have rights to enter Jira
into Sakai CLE.  Here is the bug:


Title:
2+ Custom Parameters Separated by New Lines Broken after Saving
sakai.basiclti Tool


Description:
Custom Parameters may be edited in TextArea, separated by new lines.  If
this is done, and the tool is edited from the Site Editor, the field is a
text field, instead of TextArea, and the custom parameters become one entry
containing "<br/>".


Steps to reproduce:
This takes two steps to produce:
    [a] Save custom parameters
    [b] Edit the tool as admin

[a] Save custom parameters
a1. Login as user that has the ability to modify the sakai.basiclti
properties
a2. Open the page showing the sakai.basiclti tool
a3. Click on the tool's edit icon (looks like paper with pencil on my
computer)
a4. In "Custom Launch Parameters", enter multiple parameters one-per-line
a5. Press button "Update Options" to save the changes

[b] Edit the tool as admin
b1. Login as admin
b2. Click "Sites" to open list of sites
b3. Click on ID of site with the sakai.basiclti tool
b4. Click on button "Pages"
b5. Click on ID of page containing the sakai.basiclti tool
b6. Click on button "Tools"
b7. Click on ID of the sakai.basiclti tool
* Take a look at imsti.custom field - notice this is text field with
multiple entries including "<br/>"
b8. Press "Save" button


Workaround/Solution:
Entering multiple parameters separated by semicolon appears to work fine.
 Allowing multi-line entries would require using TextArea in Site Editor,
or "cleaning up" the entry by replacing "<br/>" with semicolons.  Using
semicolons will "mess up" the view in the TextArea; one workaround for that
is to replace semicolons with "<br/>".

My preference would be to either:
[A] Do not have two different forms for editing these parameters
AND/OR
[B] Use one set of input for each parameter instead of TextArea.  Coding
this is a little challenging, but not so hard to do.  Add new input fields
when the user asks for them, and hide elements when the user asks to delete
one.  Some field needs to be sent to the user indicating parameters to
delete.  This makes a nice interface.
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