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WEB-1270: Register Azerbaijani locale data - #4058

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Problem

Azerbaijani (az-AZ) was added to the default supportedLanguages list in #4029
(commit abf0a71), but its Angular locale data was never registered.

When a user selects Azerbaijani, the language selector stores the code az
(value.substring(0, 2)), which flows into new DatePipe('az') in
Dates.formatDate(). Angular's DatePipe.transform then throws:

InvalidPipeArgument: Missing locale data for the locale "az"

Dates.formatDate is called in ~337 places, overwhelmingly to format the
transaction/effective date when building command payloads sent to Fineract
(journal entries, account transfers, loan disbursement/repayment, client
activation, add-charge, etc.). So every date-bearing write operation fails for
Azerbaijani users.
The failure is easy to miss because read-only date display
is coincidentally protected — DateFormatPipe uses moment (falls back to
English), and CustomDateAdapter.format wraps its DatePipe in try/catch — so
dates still render and the error only surfaces on submit.

Every other supported language dodged this because its 2-letter code
(cs, de, es, fr, it, ko, lt, lv, ne, pt, sw) maps to a locale that
web-app.component.ts already registers.

Fix

  • Register the Angular az locale via registerLocaleData in
    web-app.component.ts (the essential fix — stops the DatePipe throw).
  • Load the moment az locale in date-format.pipe.ts, so Azerbaijani dates
    render in-locale instead of silently falling back to English (matching every
    other supported language).
  • Guard Dates.formatDate with a moment-based fallback (mirroring
    CustomDateAdapter), so any future unregistered locale degrades gracefully
    instead of breaking submits.

Steps to reproduce (before this fix)

  1. Fresh install / default env → open the language selector and choose
    Azerbaijani (first in the list).
  2. Go to Accounting → Create Journal Entry, pick a date, submit.
  3. Observe the uncaught Missing locale data for the locale "az" error; the
    payload is never built and the operation fails.

After this fix, the same flow succeeds and dates render in the Azerbaijani locale.

Testing

  • npm run lint
  • npm run test

Visual evidence

This changes how dates render for the Azerbaijani locale. Per the contribution
workflow, Before/After screenshots are required — please attach:

  • Before: a date field / submit failing under Azerbaijani (on dev).
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  • After: the same screen rendering/submitting correctly on this branch.
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Azerbaijani language support for date formatting, so dates can be displayed using Azerbaijani locale conventions.
  • Bug Fixes

    • When standard date formatting fails for a valid date, formatting now falls back to an alternate method. Invalid timestamps continue to raise an error rather than being displayed as “Invalid date.”

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Walkthrough

formatDate now falls back to Moment.js when Angular’s DatePipe throws and the timestamp is valid. Azerbaijani locale data is imported for Moment.js and registered with Angular. Tests cover formatting and error handling for an unregistered locale.

Changes

Date formatting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Date formatting and Azerbaijani locale support
src/app/core/utils/dates.ts, src/app/pipes/date-format.pipe.ts, src/app/web-app.component.ts, src/app/core/utils/dates.spec.ts
formatDate falls back to Moment.js when DatePipe throws for a valid timestamp and rethrows the error for an invalid timestamp. Azerbaijani locale data is imported for Moment.js and registered with Angular. Tests cover both fallback outcomes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: gkbishnoi07

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 43db3

When DatePipe fails for a valid date, formatting continues without exposing the cause, making locale or configuration issues harder to diagnose. The concern is bounded and does not prevent merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 43db3

The Azerbaijani locale registration fixes the normal language path. The broader fallback also allows some dates that previously failed to proceed, but it may format locale-sensitive dates differently from the selected language. The effect on submitted financial dates warrants design review; no cross-user access or privilege escalation was established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · architecture · inferred: When DatePipe fails, the shared fallback can format a valid, locale-sensitive date using Moment's current global locale rather than the selected language, while consumers submit the result with a separately declared locale and date format. This may weaken containment of formatting failures in financial date payloads; the resulting server behavior is unverified.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The observed exposure is date content produced within an existing user's web-app flows, including savings and standing instructions. No evidence establishes cross-user reachability, gained privilege, or changed infrastructure authority; the complete consumer set was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The selected language is stored by the language selector and read by Dates. DatePipe remains the first formatter, and Moment-invalid timestamps still fail. The code shown does not establish how the backend validates a fallback-formatted date.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Moment's global locale can make the exceptional formatting path depend on prior display-pipe activity. That is a failure-containment concern for locale-sensitive dates, not evidence of an independently exploitable authorization bypass.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind fallback formatting to the selected locale on a Moment instance and constrain recovery to understood DatePipe failures, so a recovered write preserves the intended date contract rather than relying on global locale state.
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