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Add cleanup "Remove empty fields" #911

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tobiasdiez opened this issue Mar 5, 2016 · 5 comments
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Add cleanup "Remove empty fields" #911

tobiasdiez opened this issue Mar 5, 2016 · 5 comments

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@tobiasdiez
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As suggested by oscargus it would be nice to remove empty fields (only containing whitespace) as a cleanup step.

@stefan-kolb
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Discussed with @simonharrer : What about making this the default behaviour of our BibtexWriter? Is there any reasonable case where we want empty fields?

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👍 for "remove by default".

@koppor
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koppor commented Mar 10, 2016

It has been the default in old versions, but at some point, we distinguished between null and "". As a result, JabRef, kept empty fields. All in all, we can remove empty fields as this was a feature introduced lately and which will used seldomly.

The only use case I see is manual editing of fields not available in the UI. Refs #454. I think, however, this is not used often.

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@tobiasdiez This is now done by default and can be closed?!

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Apparently, empty fields were always deleted. At least the test added in #974 passed without any further modifications.

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