OpenTable iPhone App - Easy to get the app to display "null"

OpenTable iPhone app (version 3.7.1)

Description:

There’s an easy way to get the term “null” to appear on both the OpenTable iPhone app, and in OpenTable email notifications.

This bug is about the appearance of the term “null” in the application itself, this bug is NOT about the steps used get “null” to appear.

If you create a new account, you can easily use a space (press of the spacebar) to give yourself a seemingly blank, first and last name.

If you do this, “null” will appear in both the iPhone app, and in subsequent email notifications.

This is easier to show than to describe, so please see the attached screenshots.

Repro Steps:

1.     Download and launch the OpenTable iPhone app (version 3.7.1)

2.     Select “My OpenTable” and the select “Create an OpenTable account”

3.     From account creation enter in presses of the space bar for your first and last name

4.     Find a restaurant and book a table (notice name appears as “<null> <null>” within the app)

Result:  If the user creates an account using presses of the spacebar as their first or last name, the iPhone app and subsequent email notifications will display the term “<null>”

Expected:  That “<null>” should never appear in an app

Download and launch the OpenTable iPhone app.

Create a new OpenTable account.

Create an account with presses of the spacebar ("empty spaces") entered in, in the "First Name" and "Last Name" fields.

You'll then start seeing "<null> <null>" inside of the application......

and you'll see "null" in email notifications, and, not surprisingly, blank name fields in the text of the emails!