Issue 1754 — Move/Reorder Test Suites: suite names containing $, &, ' or backtick are mangled in the confirmation text

Issue: #1754 Branch: fix/issue-1754 · Fix commit: 13f2ca183 (landed in the #1740 code-review commit) Screen: gui/templates/testcases/suiteMove.html · BFF: api/suitemove/index.php Status: VERIFIED FIXED (2026-10-12) — the issue was a stale report of a fix that had already landed

Symptom

The Move to... confirmation dialog re-escaped the suite name, so a suite named R&D "Q1" 'beta' was confirmed as Move "R$$&D "Q1" $$'beta$$'" .... Every $, &, single quote or backtick in the name was doubled/expanded.

Root cause chain

gui/templates/testcases/suiteMove.html had a file-local fill() helper that did its own interpolation after TLi18n.t():

// pre-fix (13f2ca183^)
function fill(tpl, params) {
  params = params || {};
  return TLi18n.t(tpl, params).replace(/[$&`']/g, function (c) {
    return ({ '$': '$$$$', '&': '$$&', '`': '$$`', "'": "$$'" })[c];
  });
}

TLi18n.t() (gui/templates/i18n/i18n.js:174-181) already substitutes placeholders with a replacer function (str.replace(new RegExp('\\{' + k + '\\}', 'g'), function () { return v; })), precisely so a value containing $&, $` or $' survives verbatim. The extra String.replace() pass therefore re-escaped the already interpolated value: &→$$&, $→$$$$, `→$$``, '→$$'`.

The confirmation body is built at gui/templates/testcases/suiteMove.html:435: $('#mText').text(fill('smv.confirmText', { suite: row.name })).

Why the report was stale

The defect was fixed by the #1740 code-review commit 13f2ca18306dc7342f768d56b317882549f7b264 ("#1740: apply code-review fixes to Move/Reorder Test Suites"): authored 2026-09-30 13:30:30Z, landed 2026-09-30 13:35:13Z. Issue #1754 was filed at 2026-09-30T13:30:53Z — after the fix was authored but before it was committed — describing the then-current code. git merge-base --is-ancestor 13f2ca183 origin/sebiboga is true, so no build carries the reported behaviour today.

Fix

No new change was required. The fix is the removal of the second pass; the current helper is:

// gui/templates/testcases/suiteMove.html:241-243
function fill(tpl, map) {
  return TLi18n.t(tpl, map);
}

This run verified that contract, appended the Regression — Issue #1754 suite and closed the tracking issue.

Alternatives considered

Option	Verdict
keep escaping but apply it to the template before substitution	rejected — TLi18n.t() already interpolates safely; a pre-escape would corrupt the translated template
stop using TLi18n.t() and hand-roll interpolation with String.replace(tpl, value)	rejected — reintroduces exactly the $& expansion bug
double-escape the value then interpolate	rejected — brittle, and other screens (suiteEdit.html:276, reqTcAssign.html:213, reqTcBulkAssign.html:185) already use the replacer-function pattern

Blast radius

fill() was local to suiteMove.html with two call sites: countChip (numeric, :360) and the confirmation (:435). The buggy replace(/[$&']/g, …)pattern appears nowhere else ingui/orapi/` (grep clean).

Verification

Live, on current origin/sebiboga, fixture php tmp/fixtures_1754.php — project MOVE54 id=1, top-level suite id=2 named R&D "Q1" 'beta' $x$ tick``, target id=3:

pre-fix  fill(): Move "R$$&D "Q1" $$'beta$$' $$$$x$$$$ $$`tick$$`" to the selected test suite. ...
current  fill(): Move "R&D "Q1" 'beta' $x$ `tick`" to the selected test suite. ...
live #mText    : Move "R&D "Q1" 'beta' $x$ `tick`" to the selected test suite. ...

Case	Expected	Observed
hazard name in confirmation	verbatim, no $$	verbatim
pre-fix fill() on same value	reproduces the report	R$$&D … $$'beta$$' … $$tick$$``
browser console	no JS error	only 1 a11y notice
events after run	0 new Error/Warning	only 2 audit rows (level 16)

Suite Regression — Issue #1754 in tmp/TLU_Test_Cases.md: 7/7 PASS.

Related

• #1740 — the modernized screen and BFF this issue was found while reviewing.
• #1753 — sibling stale report fixed by the same 13f2ca183 commit.
• 13f2ca183 — the code-review commit that fixed it.