Makes most special characters be replaced with a dash

closes #4782
- Still achieves the same goal of stripping out reserved characters
- Changes from removal to replacement
- This helps word separators from being removed
- Apostrophes (') are unaffected

core/server/models/base.js

@@ -351,9 +351,6 @@ ghostBookshelf.Model = ghostBookshelf.Model.extend({
 
         slug = utils.safeString(base);
 
-        // Remove trailing hyphen
-        slug = slug.charAt(slug.length - 1) === '-' ? slug.substr(0, slug.length - 1) : slug;
-
         // If it's a user, let's try to cut it down (unless this is a human request)
         if (baseName === 'user' && options && options.shortSlug && slugTryCount === 1 && slug !== 'ghost-owner') {
             longSlug = slug;

core/server/utils/index.js

@@ -49,20 +49,30 @@ utils = {
         return buf.join('');
     },
     safeString: function (string) {
-        string = string.trim();
+        // Handle the £ symbol seperately, since it needs to be removed before
+        // the unicode conversion.
+        string = string.replace(/£/g, '-');
 
         // Remove non ascii characters
         string = unidecode(string);
 
-        // Remove URL reserved chars: `:/?#[]@!$&'()*+,;=` as well as `\%<>|^~£"`
-        string = string.replace(/[:\/\?#\[\]@!$&'()*+,;=\\%<>\|\^~£"]/g, '')
-            // Replace dots and spaces with a dash
-            .replace(/(\s|\.)/g, '-')
+        // Replace URL reserved chars: `:/?#[]!$&()*+,;=` as well as `\%<>|^~£"`
+        string = string.replace(/(\s|\.|@|:|\/|\?|#|\[|\]|!|\$|&|\(|\)|\*|\+|,|;|=|\\|%|<|>|\||\^|~|"|–|—)/g, '-')
+            // Remove apostrophes
+            .replace(/'/g, '')
             // Convert 2 or more dashes into a single dash
             .replace(/-+/g, '-')
+            // Remove any dashes at the beginning
+            .replace(/^-/, '')
             // Make the whole thing lowercase
             .toLowerCase();
 
+        // Remove trailing dash if needed
+        string = string.charAt(string.length - 1) === '-' ? string.substr(0, string.length - 1) : string;
+
+        // Handle whitespace at the beginning or end.
+        string = string.trim();
+
         return string;
     },
     // The token is encoded URL safe by replcaing '+' with '-', '\' with '_' and removing '='

core/test/unit/server_utils_spec.js

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+/*globals describe, it*/
+/*jshint expr:true*/
+var should          = require('should'),
+    utils           = require('../../server/utils');
+
+// To stop jshint complaining
+should.equal(true, true);
+
+describe('Safe String', function () {
+    var safeString = utils.safeString;
+
+    it('should remove beginning and ending whitespace', function () {
+        var result = safeString(' stringwithspace ');
+        result.should.equal('stringwithspace');
+    });
+
+    it('should remove non ascii characters', function () {
+        var result = safeString('howtowin✓');
+        result.should.equal('howtowin');
+    });
+
+    it('should replace spaces with dashes', function () {
+        var result = safeString('how to win');
+        result.should.equal('how-to-win');
+    });
+
+    it('should replace most special characters with dashes', function () {
+        var result = safeString('a:b/c?d#e[f]g!h$i&j(k)l*m+n,o;p=q\\r%s<t>u|v^w~x£y"z@1.2');
+        result.should.equal('a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-j-k-l-m-n-o-p-q-r-s-t-u-v-w-x-y-z-1-2');
+    });
+
+    it('should remove special characters at the beginning of a string', function () {
+        var result = safeString('.Not special');
+        result.should.equal('not-special');
+    });
+
+    it('should remove apostrophes ', function () {
+        var result = safeString('how we shouldn\'t be');
+        result.should.equal('how-we-shouldnt-be');
+    });
+
+    it('should convert to lowercase', function () {
+        var result = safeString('This has Upper Case');
+        result.should.equal('this-has-upper-case');
+    });
+
+    it('should convert multiple dashes into a single dash', function () {
+        var result = safeString('This :) means everything');
+        result.should.equal('this-means-everything');
+    });
+
+    it('should remove trailing dashes from the result', function () {
+        var result = safeString('This.');
+        result.should.equal('this');
+    });
+
+    it('should handle pound signs', function () {
+        var result = safeString('WHOOPS! I spent all my £ again!');
+        result.should.equal('whoops-i-spent-all-my-again');
+    });
+
+    it('should properly handle unicode punctuation conversion', function () {
+        var result = safeString('に間違いがないか、再度確認してください。再読み込みしてください。');
+        result.should.equal('nijian-wei-iganaika-zai-du-que-ren-sitekudasai-zai-du-miip-misitekudasai');
+    });
+});