this has been filed as bug 3070 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3070
thanks On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 18:16, Ikai L (Google) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dave, > Yes, please file an issue in our issue tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi- >> >> I was writing a request handler that sent an email address and was >> very surprised when my unit tests failed due to is_email_valid >> returning unexpected false positives. Upon further investigation of >> the sdk source[1], turns out that invalid_email_reason is doing a very >> very basic string validation and not actually checking any valid email >> address guidelines. >> >> I created a list of very basic email address problems that I had >> expected to get caught[2], and it looks like the live version of gae >> is doing the same thing. >> >> I have seen many email validation regexes was really hoping that this >> function did what I had expected. Should I file a bug w/a patch? Or >> are there other workarounds that anyone else has used? Just sending >> and catching an Error (not InvalidEmailError for the listed reasons >> though)? >> >> links: >> [1] invalid_email_reason source in google code >> >> http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/source/browse/trunk/python/google/appengine/api/mail.py#115 >> [2] test handler and response source >> http://gist.github.com/359138 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > http://googleappengine.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/app_engine > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
