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Justin Edelson edited comment on SLING-2534 at 7/17/12 5:35 PM:
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bq. That parameter would be problematic as this is only valid for strings, all
other types cannot have no value. I appreciate the backwards compatibility
issue with the patch.
How is this problematic? The parameter would just be ignored for non-string
properties?
bq. One solution would be to add a configuration switch to the post servlet
where the current default behaviour can be changed to treat empty strings as
empty strings. However, this would be a global switch. Or we could add a
special request parameter like :deleteEmptyStringIfBlank=false which you could
use on your requests?
IMHO, applying this on the global or even request level is too coarse-grained
and would end up breaking application components which depend upon the current
behavior.
was (Author: justinedelson):
bq. That parameter would be problematic as this is only valid for strings,
all other types cannot have no value. I appreciate the backwards compatibility
issue with the patch.
How is this problematic? The parameter would just be ignored for non-string
properties?
bq. One solution would be to add a configuration switch to the post servlet
where the current default behaviour can be changed to treat empty strings as
empty strings. However, this would be a global switch. Or we could add a
special request parameter like :deleteEmptyStringIfBlank=false which you could
use on your requests?
IMHO, applying this on the global or even request level is too coarse-grained.
> Strings of zero length on update in post servlet delete the property
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> Key: SLING-2534
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-2534
> Project: Sling
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Servlets
> Affects Versions: Servlets Post 2.1.2
> Reporter: Endolf
> Attachments: blankstrings.patch
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> According to JCR specs, for string type properties, a blank string should be
> a valid value. Currently the post servlet delets any property where 1 or less
> values are specifed and the 1 value has a 0 length. I think string properties
> with a zero length should be blanked instead of deleted.
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