Bug 31746

Summary: Patron record saves when cardnumber required and value entered is whitespace
Product: Koha Reporter: John Yorio <jyorio>
Component: PatronsAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 CC: dcook, esa-pekka.keskitalo, gmcharlt, kyle, sally.healey
Version: 21.11   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=31719
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Description John Yorio 2022-10-12 17:41:28 UTC
This happens both with the full patron entry form and the quick add form.

When the cardnumber is required, it's possible to enter either spaces or non-printing characters into the cardnumber field and save the record. That is, there's nothing but whitespace. The value of cardnumber saved in the database in this case is NULL.

It would be helpful if Koha verified that the cardnumber field contained something other than whitespace and prevented it from saving if it did not, when the cardnumber is required.

I'm not sure if this relates to bug 30978 in any way, but I'm referencing it here just in case.
Comment 1 E-P Keskitalo 2025-09-11 08:38:57 UTC
This seems to be alive in 25.05. We found a patron without a cardnumber, or rather, a whitespace as the cardnumber. 

I am not sure, should I keep the original version indication, or refresh it.
Comment 2 David Cook 2025-09-12 07:08:38 UTC
(In reply to E-P Keskitalo from comment #1)
> This seems to be alive in 25.05. We found a patron without a cardnumber, or
> rather, a whitespace as the cardnumber. 

Yikes. That's no good!

> I am not sure, should I keep the original version indication, or refresh it.

Doesn't really matter too much. In a case like this, I usually leave it, since in theory it could help maintainers know that it's likely it needs to be backported back a long way.