Server Connect Text to Image advice

[psweb]

I have a form which runs a server action, the action has a Text to Image ste in it.

If i ask it to create this text: BOTSWANA & ZIMBABWE WILDLIFE ODYSSEY
It throws the following error

{
    "status": "500",
    "message": "Input buffer has corrupt header: glib: XML parse error: Error domain 1 code 68 on line 11 column 82 of data: xmlParseEntityRef: no name",
    "stack": "Error: Input buffer has corrupt header: glib: XML parse error: Error domain 1 code 68 on line 11 column 82 of data: xmlParseEntityRef: no name"
}

If i change the text to: BOTSWANA AND ZIMBABWE WILDLIFE ODYSSEY
It works, so it does not like the & ampersand symbol, I also tried changing it to & which also does not work.

Any ideas on how i can get this to work including special characters, considering I am unsure what people may possibly type in there? @Teodor would you mind testing possibly if this is a bug or just me.

[Teodor]

Not sure if that will help, but can you try applying the encodeurl formatter on the POST value in your server action, where you pass its value to the text-to-image?

[psweb]

Thanks Teo, tried that, unfortunately I get the same error which is kind of even more strange to be honest because how does it know %26 is the & symbol if it is not decoding the input.
Original Text: BOTSWANA & ZIMBABWE WILDLIFE ODYSSEY
URL Encoded: BOTSWANA%20%26%20ZIMBABWE%20WILDLIFE%20ODYSSEY
Error is:

{
    "status": "500",
    "message": "Input buffer has corrupt header: glib: XML parse error: Error domain 1 code 68 on line 11 column 84 of data: xmlParseEntityRef: no name",
    "stack": "Error: Input buffer has corrupt header: glib: XML parse error: Error domain 1 code 68 on line 11 column 84 of data: xmlParseEntityRef: no name"
}

And if I change the ampersand to the actual word AND then i get this result without any error.
Original Text: BOTSWANA AND ZIMBABWE WILDLIFE ODYSSEY
URL Encoded: BOTSWANA%20AND%20ZIMBABWE%20WILDLIFE%20ODYSSEY

Output is

[psweb]

Just a strange update, it accepts other characters, such as É so it seems like it just really does not like ampersand symbols, for now I am just using the_text.replace('&','and') to work around this.

[Apple]

You should create a bug report, errors like these are bugs until proven otherwise

[Hyperbytes]

Possibly it is seeing everything after the & as a parameter rather than part of the string?

Can it cope with the "?" character?

[psweb]

Just tested, and ? character seems ok, strange indeed.

[patrick]

Which server model do you use (NodeJS, PHP or ASP.NET)?

[patrick]

After a google search for the exact error message it seems probably an issue with the sharp library in NodeJS.

So I updated the code to correctly encode the text, please test the following update

image.zip (3.1 KB) Unzip to lib/modules.

[psweb]

Amazing Patrick, thank you so much, it works perfectly now, so happy, here is the happy result

[Teodor]

Fixed in Wappler 7.0.0 Beta 29