1026415 - Some empty fields are present as "" rather than being absent

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Extensions, defect)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv] (not reading bugmail)]

I don't know if the aim with the REST compatibility layer was to get absolute perfection or not. I guess it's OK to have new fields which are not present at all on BzAPI, like is_open, because that shouldn't break anything. But it's probably an issue if you change the behaviour of fields which BzAPI does return.

If a user doesn't have a real_name, BzAPI omits the field, but Compat returns it as "":

Compare:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/bzapi/bug/35
https://api-dev.bugzilla.mozilla.org/latest/bug/35?content-type=application/json

for the "creator" entry. 

Gerv

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv] (not reading bugmail)]

And sometimes the other way around. The "URL" field on a search is "" on BzAPI, and absent on Compat:

https://api-dev.bugzilla.mozilla.org/latest/bug?id=35&content-type=application/json
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/bzapi/bug?id=35?content-type=application/json

Gerv

Comment 2

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

To ssh://[e-mail]/webtools/bmo/bugzilla.git
   7bcced3..c2fef44  master -> master