Prevent Empty Channel Names

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Description
Reject channel creation requests that use empty or whitespace-only names.

Acceptance Criteria
Empty names are rejected.
Validation is documented.
Unit tests are added.

[iredis]

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[kitWarse]

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Hello pls can I work on this

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