+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #2174297 +++

Description of problem: when registering the system in interactive mode to a server with multi-environment capability, environment module does not accept values with spaces


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# rpm -qa subscription-manager
subscription-manager-1.29.33-1.el9.x86_64

How reproducible:
Below is demonstration of the issue-
[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# subscription-manager version
server type: This system is currently not registered.
subscription management server: 4.2.15-1
subscription management rules: 5.43
subscription-manager: 1.29.33-1.el9
[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]#

[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# subscription-manager register --username testuser1 --password ***** --org *******
Registering to: archana-candlepin.usersys.redhat.com:8443/candlepin
Hint: Organization "******" contains following environments: DevEnv, Test Env1
Environments: Test Env1
No such environment: TestEnv1   <<<<  it simply removes the space from value provided
[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# 
[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# subscription-manager register --username testuser1 --password ****** --org ****
Registering to: archana-candlepin.usersys.redhat.com:8443/candlepin
Hint: Organization "*******" contains following environments: DevEnv, Test Env1
Environments: "Test\ Env1"
No such environment: "Test\Env1"    <<<<  it simply removes the space from value provided
[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]



Actual results:
spaces in the environment value is getting removed and hence registration fails for wrong value

Expected results:
only preceding and ending whitespaces should be removed

Additional info:

it works fine for cli non interactive mode-
[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# subscription-manager register --username testuser1 --password ****** --org **** --environments "Test Env1"
Registering to: archana-candlepin.usersys.redhat.com:8443/candlepin
The system has been registered with ID: 75aa3d13-7af1-4a3f-8c7d-f6ad602a258e
The registered system name is: kvm-03-guest14.hv2.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com

--- Additional comment from Pino Toscano on 2023-03-02 10:50:00 UTC ---

(In reply to Archana Pandey from comment #0)
> [root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# subscription-manager register --username testuser1
> --password ***** --org *******
> Registering to: archana-candlepin.usersys.redhat.com:8443/candlepin
> Hint: Organization "******" contains following environments: DevEnv, Test
> Env1
> Environments: Test Env1
> No such environment: TestEnv1   <<<<  it simply removes the space from value
> provided

Typing the environments like this (environment names as-they-are) is correct.

> [root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# subscription-manager register --username testuser1
> --password ****** --org ****
> Registering to: archana-candlepin.usersys.redhat.com:8443/candlepin
> Hint: Organization "*******" contains following environments: DevEnv, Test
> Env1
> Environments: "Test\ Env1"
> No such environment: "Test\Env1"    <<<<  it simply removes the space from
> value provided

This is not correct, as there is no unquoting or unescaping done.

The problem happens only when asking the user for environments:
https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager/blob/82a44c368f4f83c32d1933b774d731a5c341e9ef/src/subscription_manager/cli_command/register.py#L441-L444
Tracking back the history of this code, we have (ignoring no-op commits):
- https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager/commit/7d0199fb9419daad10530ad87cb2ef7fdae37a62
  this re-adds support for non-multi-environments scenarios
- https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager/commit/19ae947ad78a517d8ba999fdc41b62dcd850dbad
  this adds support for multiple environments: note that the `strip()` for non-multi-environments (i.e. only trailing and leading whitespace characters are removed) becomes `replace(" ", "")` (i.e. every single space is removed)
(both the commit above are part of https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager/pull/2920 )
- https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager/commit/69c4921f4fd9915e19317af44c4bf72cc5bf72e1
  (part of https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager/pull/989 )
  this is introduces the interactive query for an environment, doing the `strip()` in the input (unlike what other `input()` prompts do)

My notes:
- I'm not sure why the input is `strip()`ed for non-multi-environment input; the original commit doesn't say that
- I think the logic in removing spaces in the multi-environment case was done to mimic the non-multi-environment one, sadly in a sub-optimal way which creates this issue

The user may type any arbitrary amount of environments to register to when prompted interactively, so I think that the logic to strip spaces is most likely still needed: an input string "Env 1, Env2,MyEnv" must result in "Env 1", "Env2", "MyEnv" (and not as "Env 1", " Env2", "MyEnv"). Looking at the code:
- the result of `RegisterCommand._prompt_for_environment()` is passed directly to `check_set_environment_names()`
- `check_set_environment_names()` does `strip()` on the split elements of an environment string:
  https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager/blob/82a44c368f4f83c32d1933b774d731a5c341e9ef/src/subscription_manager/cli_command/environments.py#L196-L203

Hence, I think we can safely do a single `strip()` on the input of `RegisterCommand._prompt_for_environment()`, in both multi-environments and non-multi-environments scenarios: this way, empty or whitespace-only inputs are rejected, prompting the user again.
Attempt of PR for this: https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager/pull/3219