Truncate Authie::Session#user_agent before it's persisted: "Data too long for column 'user_agent'"

[adamcooke]

Truncate Authie::Session#user_agent before it's persisted: "Data too long for column 'user_agent'"

[adamcooke]

The before_validation will always be run before the before_create so I'm puzzled why you're seeing any errors here. Do you have some examples of the exact error you're receiving?

Thanks!

[admpsktt]

Hi @adamcooke. Thanks for getting back. I was able to reproduce the error mentioned in the title of the issue by faking a user-agent of 256 characters or more in Chrome developer tools and logging in to my app through an Authie::Session.

before_validation is indeed run before before_create but in before_create, when in a controller context, self.user_agent= is invoked again, overriding what happens in the before_validation callback.

If you are able to reproduce the problem, I suspect it can be resolved by changing the line in the before_create from:

self.user_agent = controller.request.user_agent

to:

self.user_agent = controller.request.user_agent[0,255] if controller.request.user_agent.is_a? String

Am I missing something?