feat: whitelist the characters possible for the channel names

ui/app/AppLayouts/Chat/components/GroupChatPopup.qml

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ ModalPopup {
     property bool selectChatMembers: true
     property int memberCount: 1
     readonly property int maxMembers: 10
+    property string channelNameValidationError: ""
 
     onOpened: {
         groupName.text = "";
@@ -55,8 +56,25 @@ ModalPopup {
         }
     }
 
-    function doJoin(){
+    function validate() {
-        if(pubKeys.length === 0) return;
+        if (groupName.text === "") {
+            channelNameValidationError = qsTr("You need to enter a channel name")
+        } else if (!Utils.isValidChannelName(groupName.text)) {
+            channelNameValidationError = qsTr("The channel name can only contain lowercase letters, numbers and dashes")
+        } else {
+            channelNameValidationError = ""
+        }
+
+        return channelNameValidationError === ""
+    }
+
+    function doJoin() {
+        if (!validate()) {
+            return
+        }
+        if(pubKeys.length === 0) {
+            return;
+        }
         chatsModel.createGroup(Utils.filterXSS(groupName.text), JSON.stringify(pubKeys));
         popup.close();
     }
@@ -98,6 +116,7 @@ ModalPopup {
         //% "Group name"
         placeholderText: qsTrId("group-name")
         visible: !selectChatMembers
+        validationError: channelNameValidationError
     }
 
     Rectangle {

ui/app/AppLayouts/Chat/components/PublicChatPopup.qml

@@ -8,8 +8,24 @@ import "../data/channelList.js" as ChannelJSON
 import "./"
 
 ModalPopup {
+    property string channelNameValidationError: ""
+
+    function validate() {
+        if (channelName.text === "") {
+            channelNameValidationError = qsTr("You need to enter a channel name")
+        } else if (!Utils.isValidChannelName(channelName.text)) {
+            channelNameValidationError = qsTr("The channel name can only contain lowercase letters, numbers and dashes")
+        } else {
+            channelNameValidationError = ""
+        }
+
+        return channelNameValidationError === ""
+    }
+
     function doJoin() {
-        if(channelName.text === "") return;
+        if (!validate()) {
+            return
+        }
         chatsModel.joinChat(channelName.text, Constants.chatTypePublic);
         popup.close();
     }
@@ -48,6 +64,7 @@ ModalPopup {
         Keys.onEnterPressed: doJoin()
         Keys.onReturnPressed: doJoin()
         icon: "../../../img/hash.svg"
+        validationError: channelNameValidationError
     }
 
     ScrollView {

ui/imports/Utils.qml

@@ -146,6 +146,10 @@ QtObject {
         }
     }
 
+    function isValidChannelName(channelName) {
+        return (/^[a-z0-9\-]+$/.test(channelName))
+    }
+
     function isSpace(c) {
         return (/( |\t|\n|\r)/.test(c))
     }