Inconsistent error messages for entity names with illegal characters

[mdeuser]

Environment details:

• local deployment, Windows, Bluemix

  Steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. wsk rule create bad+rulename bad+trigname bad+actionname
  2. Note error message
  3. wsk rule create goodname bad+trigname bad+actionname
  4. Note error message

     Provide the expected results and outputs:

Step 2

Step 2.  `...name 'bad+name' contains illegal characters`

Step 4

Step 4.  `...name 'bad+trigname' contains illegal characters

Provide the actual results and outputs:

Step 4.

The request content was malformed:
entity name malformed

These error messages come from the Whisk server and are not generated by the wsk CLI. It's unclear what entity name was malformed as this command requires several names.

[rabbah]

Related to #239 and #385 (both of which are closed but this issue is not resolved).

[kurtismgit]

I'm hitting the same error if I try to create a rule where the action is in a package.

$wsk rule create --enable nlcTrainingRule nlcTrainingTrigger cloudbot/nlcTrainer error: The request content was malformed: entity name malformed (code 1015467)

I'm able to create the rule if the action is not in a package.

[mdeuser]

@kurtismgit Refer to #239 which describes your issue exactly.

[rabbah]

Closing as duplicate of #239.