JTable doesn't update a field with a null value about joomla-platform HOT 5 CLOSED

Wow I think this is happening for me as well when trying to save a blanked out article.

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Actually I think this is because $updateNulls is set to false in the content table

Also #1077 although that has to do with a different table.

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Actually this is feature (or issue) in bind() function itself, which prevents updating values that do not exist.

In PHP isset() returns false either if the value doesn't exist or is null. It's very useful for example when you may have optional input fields, which do not always come from GET or POST (are set but not defined). Changing this undocumented feature could potentially slightly break many extensions (and core) which rely on this feature.

If table needs some other behavior, I'd rather override the function with a version that works better for that table. Forcing bind() change to all tables may have catastrophic consequences on many extensions as it's breaking the current API.

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Okay I found the problem in JTableContent which is that it was using !empty rather than isset for a condition and that was leading to other consequences

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So, has this been fixed in the CMS or a previous iteration of the Platform then?

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