Fixed an error that occurred when an author name contains a string that is not suitable for JSON (#3638)

* fix(pkg): Fixed an issue where wails new would throw an error if the author name contained non-JSON legal characters.

* refactor(pkg): Incorporating coderabbit's suggestions

* docs: write changelog.mdx

* Escape using json package. Add tests.

* Update test.

---------

Co-authored-by: Lea O'Anthony <lea.anthony@gmail.com>

v2/pkg/git/git.go

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 package git
 
 import (
-	"html/template"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
 	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -30,9 +31,31 @@ func Email() (string, error) {
 
 // Name tries to retrieve the
 func Name() (string, error) {
+	errMsg := "failed to retrieve git user name: %w"
 	stdout, _, err := shell.RunCommand(".", gitcommand(), "config", "user.name")
-	name := template.JSEscapeString(strings.TrimSpace(stdout))
+	if err != nil {
-	return name, err
+		return "", fmt.Errorf(errMsg, err)
+	}
+	name := strings.TrimSpace(stdout)
+	return EscapeName(name)
+}
+
+func EscapeName(str string) (string, error) {
+	b, err := json.Marshal(str)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	// Remove the surrounding quotes
+	escaped := string(b[1 : len(b)-1])
+
+	// Check if username is JSON compliant
+	var js json.RawMessage
+	jsonVal := fmt.Sprintf(`{"name": "%s"}`, escaped)
+	err = json.Unmarshal([]byte(jsonVal), &js)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to retrieve git user name: %w", err)
+	}
+	return escaped, nil
 }
 
 func InitRepo(projectDir string) error {

v2/pkg/git/git_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+package git
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestEscapeName1(t *testing.T) {
+	type args struct {
+		str string
+	}
+	tests := []struct {
+		name    string
+		args    args
+		want    string
+		wantErr bool
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "Escape Apostrophe",
+			args: args{
+				str: `John O'Keefe`,
+			},
+			want: `John O'Keefe`,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "Escape backslash",
+			args: args{
+				str: `MYDOMAIN\USER`,
+			},
+			want: `MYDOMAIN\\USER`,
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			got, err := EscapeName(tt.args.str)
+			if (err != nil) != tt.wantErr {
+				t.Errorf("EscapeName() error = %v, wantErr %v", err, tt.wantErr)
+				return
+			}
+			if got != tt.want {
+				t.Errorf("EscapeName() got = %v, want %v", got, tt.want)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

website/src/pages/changelog.mdx

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ## [Unreleased]
 
 ### Fixed
+- Fixed an error that occurred when an author name contains a string that is not suitable for JSON. Fixed by @taiseiotsuka in [PR](https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/pull/3638)
 - Fixed MacOS build to use `outputfilename` from wails.json. [#3200](https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/issues/3200)
 - Fixed file drop events on windows. Fixed in [PR](https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/pull/3595) by @FrancescoLuzzi
 + Fixed file drop events on Windows in [PR](https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/pull/3595) by @FrancescoLuzzi