QueryFailedError: Value too long for type character varying(255) during sign-up

[Programmer-RD-AI]

An error occurs when trying to sign up on ScholarX. The error message indicates that a value is too long for a column defined as character varying(255) in the database.

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Steps to Reproduce:

1. Navigate to the ScholarX sign-up page.
2. Fill in the required details and submit the form.
3. Observe the error message.

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Expected Behavior:
The sign-up process should complete successfully without throwing any database-related errors.

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Actual Behavior:
The following error is encountered:

QueryFailedError: value too long for type character varying(255)
    at PostgresQueryRunner.query (/root/scholarx-backend/node_modules/typeorm/src/driver/postgres/PostgresQueryRunner.ts:299:19)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async InsertQueryBuilder.execute (/root/scholarx-backend/node_modules/src/query-builder/InsertQueryBuilder.ts:163:33)
    at async SubjectExecutor.executeInsertOperations (/root/scholarx-backend/node_modules/src/persistence/SubjectExecutor.ts:434:42)
    at async SubjectExecutor.execute (/root/scholarx-backend/node_modules/src/persistence/SubjectExecutor.ts:137:9)
    at async EntityPersistExecutor.execute (/root/scholarx-backend/node_modules/src/persistence/EntityPersistExecutor.ts:182:21)

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Additional Information:

• Browser/Platform: Google Chrome 132.0.6834.83 on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
• Console Logs: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)