From 08e7ec5e32515a3b534c10bcff1b0f910543c18e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rakshak05 <159248180+Rakshak05@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:48:21 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Resolves issue-#6648

---
 ...-protection.username-normalization.test.ts | 124 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 124 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 services/security/track-user-protection.username-normalization.test.ts

diff --git a/services/security/track-user-protection.username-normalization.test.ts b/services/security/track-user-protection.username-normalization.test.ts
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+++ b/services/security/track-user-protection.username-normalization.test.ts
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+import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { trackUserProtection, TrackUserProtection } from './track-user-protection';
+import { gitHubUserValidator } from '../github/validate-user';
+
+vi.mock('../github/validate-user', () => ({
+  gitHubUserValidator: {
+    validateUser: vi.fn(),
+  },
+}));
+
+describe('TrackUserProtection Username Normalization', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    trackUserProtection.reset();
+    vi.clearAllMocks();
+    vi.mocked(gitHubUserValidator.validateUser).mockResolvedValue(true);
+  });
+
+  describe('Leading and trailing whitespace handling', () => {
+    it('ignores leading and trailing whitespace in validateFormat()', () => {
+      expect(trackUserProtection.validateFormat('  octocat  ')).toBe(true);
+      expect(trackUserProtection.validateFormat('\toctocat\n')).toBe(true);
+      expect(trackUserProtection.validateFormat('   ')).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('ignores leading and trailing whitespace in isWriteAllowed() and recordWrite()', () => {
+      trackUserProtection.recordWrite('  octocat  ');
+
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('octocat')).toBe(false);
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('  octocat')).toBe(false);
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('octocat   ')).toBe(false);
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('  octocat  ')).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('ignores leading and trailing whitespace in verifyAndDeduplicate()', async () => {
+      trackUserProtection.recordWrite('  octocat  ');
+
+      const result = await trackUserProtection.verifyAndDeduplicate('  octocat  ');
+      expect(result.allowed).toBe(false);
+      expect(result.reason).toBe('COOLDOWN_ACTIVE');
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('Case-insensitivity across APIs', () => {
+    it('treats usernames case-insensitively in validateFormat()', () => {
+      expect(trackUserProtection.validateFormat('OctoCat')).toBe(true);
+      expect(trackUserProtection.validateFormat('OCTOCAT')).toBe(true);
+      expect(trackUserProtection.validateFormat('octocat')).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('treats usernames case-insensitively across recordWrite() and isWriteAllowed()', () => {
+      trackUserProtection.recordWrite('OctoCat');
+
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('octocat')).toBe(false);
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('OCTOCAT')).toBe(false);
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('OctoCat')).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('treats usernames case-insensitively in verifyAndDeduplicate()', async () => {
+      trackUserProtection.recordWrite('OctoCat');
+
+      const result = await trackUserProtection.verifyAndDeduplicate('OCTOCAT');
+      expect(result.allowed).toBe(false);
+      expect(result.reason).toBe('COOLDOWN_ACTIVE');
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('Consistent behavior across all public APIs', () => {
+    it('behaves consistently when combining casing and whitespace variations', async () => {
+      expect(trackUserProtection.validateFormat('  OctoCat  ')).toBe(true);
+
+      trackUserProtection.recordWrite('  OctoCat  ');
+
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('octocat')).toBe(false);
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed(' OCTOCAT ')).toBe(false);
+
+      const verifyResult = await trackUserProtection.verifyAndDeduplicate('\tOCTOCAT\n');
+      expect(verifyResult.allowed).toBe(false);
+      expect(verifyResult.reason).toBe('COOLDOWN_ACTIVE');
+    });
+
+    it('allows writes for new normalized usernames while blocking recorded variations', async () => {
+      trackUserProtection.recordWrite('  OctoCat  ');
+
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('different-user')).toBe(true);
+
+      const allowedResult = await trackUserProtection.verifyAndDeduplicate('  Different-User  ');
+      expect(allowedResult.allowed).toBe(true);
+      expect(gitHubUserValidator.validateUser).toHaveBeenCalledWith('  Different-User  ');
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('Single internal entry referencing for equivalent usernames', () => {
+    it('references the same internal entry for OctoCat, octocat, and OCTOCAT', () => {
+      trackUserProtection.recordWrite('OctoCat');
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('octocat')).toBe(false);
+
+      // Overwriting with equivalent username variation
+      trackUserProtection.recordWrite('  octocat  ');
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('OCTOCAT')).toBe(false);
+
+      trackUserProtection.recordWrite('OCTOCAT');
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('OctoCat')).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('clears internal entries for all equivalent variations on reset()', () => {
+      trackUserProtection.recordWrite('  OctoCat  ');
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('OCTOCAT')).toBe(false);
+
+      trackUserProtection.reset();
+
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('octocat')).toBe(true);
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('OCTOCAT')).toBe(true);
+      expect(trackUserProtection.isWriteAllowed('  OctoCat  ')).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('works correctly with direct instance from getInstance()', () => {
+      const instance = TrackUserProtection.getInstance();
+      instance.recordWrite('  TestUser  ');
+
+      expect(instance.isWriteAllowed('testuser')).toBe(false);
+      expect(instance.isWriteAllowed('TESTUSER')).toBe(false);
+    });
+  });
+});