source/Plugins/AyaNova.Plugin.V8/V8.cs

@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.PlugIn.V8
                 return;
             }
             ExportAssignedDocs = dOpt.ExportAssignedDocs;
-            ImportTag = dOpt.Tags;
+            ImportTag = Util.NormalizeTag(dOpt.Tags);
             //here because we logged in fine and can proceed
 
             //MessageBox.Show("Login successful! JWT is " + util.JWT);

source/Plugins/AyaNova.Plugin.V8/util.cs

@@ -120,9 +120,9 @@ namespace AyaNova.PlugIn.V8
                     return false;
                 }
 
-               a = await GetAsync("server-state/");
-               ServerState = a.ObjectResponse["data"]["serverState"].Value<string>();
-               
+                a = await GetAsync("server-state/");
+                ServerState = a.ObjectResponse["data"]["serverState"].Value<string>();
+
 
                 return true;
             }
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.PlugIn.V8
         }
 
 
-       
+
 
 
 
@@ -315,10 +315,12 @@ namespace AyaNova.PlugIn.V8
             return Convert.ToBase64String(b);
         }
 
+
         public static string NormalizeTag(string inObj)
         {
+            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(inObj)) return null;
             //Must be lowercase per rules 
-            //This may be naive when we get international customers but for now supporting utf-8 and it appears it's safe to do this with unicode
+            //This may be naive when we get international cust omers but for now supporting utf-8 and it appears it's safe to do this with unicode
             inObj = inObj.ToLowerInvariant();
             //No spaces in tags, replace with dashes
             inObj = inObj.Replace(" ", "-");
@@ -327,10 +329,25 @@ namespace AyaNova.PlugIn.V8
             //Ensure doesn't start or end with a dash
             inObj = inObj.Trim('-');
             //No longer than 255 characters
-            inObj = MaxLength(inObj, 255);
+            inObj = StringUtil.MaxLength(inObj, 255);
             return inObj;
         }
 
+        //clean up tags from client submission
+        //remove dupes, substitute dashes for spaces, lowercase and shorten if exceed 255 chars
+        //and sorts before returning to ensure consistent ordering
+        public static List<string> NormalizeTags(List<string> inTags)
+        {
+            if (inTags == null || inTags.Count == 0) return inTags;
+
+            List<string> outTags = new List<string>();
+            foreach (var tag in inTags)
+                outTags.Add(NormalizeTag(tag));
+            outTags.Sort();
+            return outTags.Distinct().ToList();
+        }
+
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Trim a string if necessary
         /// </summary>