There is a problem with stripping special characters from manufacturers names for the slug.
For example: "Rohde & Schwarz" would be stripped down to "rohde_&_schwarz" which is not a clean solution.
When manually creating a manufacturer in Netbox with that name, Netbox strips the slug down to "rohde-schwarz" which is much cleaner.
So I implemented a change which strips all special characters (and white spaces) and replaces them with a single hyphen (-). This solves the problem of special chars other than white spaces, and also when there are multiple behind each other.
Also changed the underscore to hyphen as the Netbox uses hyphens by default (avoiding problems with existing manufacturer entries).
A few examples:
Rohde & Schwarz --> rohde-schwarzPalo Alto --> palo-altoExample - Vendor --> example-vendor
Technical explanation: Used the regular expression module with \W+ (equivalent to [^a-zA-Z0-9_]) as this matches any non-word chars.
There is a problem with stripping special characters from manufacturers names for the slug. For example: "Rohde & Schwarz" would be stripped down to "rohde_&_schwarz" which is not a clean solution. When manually creating a manufacturer in Netbox with that name, Netbox strips the slug down to "rohde-schwarz" which is much cleaner.
So I implemented a change which strips all special characters (and white spaces) and replaces them with a single hyphen (-). This solves the problem of special chars other than white spaces, and also when there are multiple behind each other. Also changed the underscore to hyphen as the Netbox uses hyphens by default (avoiding problems with existing manufacturer entries).
A few examples:
Rohde & Schwarz --> rohde-schwarzPalo Alto --> palo-altoExample - Vendor --> example-vendorTechnical explanation: Used the regular expression module with
\W+(equivalent to[^a-zA-Z0-9_]) as this matches any non-word chars.Fixes #8