Trim white spaces in Instance name

[sepetuks]

Headline:
Trim white spaces from input for Instance name

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Description:
During provision user can name his instance as he wants, from time to time it happens that users do copy->paste and leaves whitespace in front of instance name. This causes errors as Cloud-Init do not process it properly then. So maybe it would be good idea to make some “Trim” operations on Instance name and Hostname fields automatically.

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Example/Use case(s):
Try to provision instance with a “space” in front of instance name.

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[Ollie_Phillips]

There is a community-led plugin project which includes functionality to do this. It’s tested on Morpheus 6.1.0 and up. I don’t know what version you have, but maybe it will help:

JavaScript Snippets Plugin

This experimental Plugin project supports the addition of JavaScript snippets which can be enabled and disabled individually in the plugin’s settings. Just the one use case currently - stripping leading and trailing whitespace from the instance name field in the Morpheus UI standard persona. The plugin only runs JavaScript included as part of the JAR build. It is possible to read from a remote URL and maintain the JavaScript outside of the plugin, by referencing and including a remote script, …