Request-a-file form fails without further help, if the request message is to long
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Since Jun 30, 2026.
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Description
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Currently it is not visible for user, who many characters they're allowed to put in for the request message in the request-a-file form. If they're putting to many, the form will just fail with "Something went wrong [...]".
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be nice, if the frontend textarea field would respect the backend's request.item.email.message.maxlength setting and would react with a better error message.
Additional information
This came up while testing the https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/12701 backend PR.
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