[Zope-CMF] List of null strings in Subject

[Tres Seaver]

Loren Stafford wrote:

> I just changed the CMF Metadata Subject configuration to show both a
> suggested vocabulary and allow subjects not in the suggested vocabulary.
> This results in the display of a textarea of type Lines. After updating
> Metadata where no items are entered into the textarea (because the subject
> is selected from the suggested vocabulary), the resource receives as one of
> its Subjects a value of [''], which shows up in the textarea thus:
> 
>         <textarea name="subject:lines" rows="3"
>                cols="20">['']
>         </textarea><br>
> 
> Update Meadata one more time and you get:
> 
>         <textarea name="subject:lines" rows="3"
>                cols="20">["['']", '']
>        </textarea><br>
> 
> This is a familiar problem to anyone who has worked with Lines textareas in
> Zope, and most of us have developed workarounds. I think CMF needs to
> include a workaround too.
> 
> Should I submit this as a bug report?


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Tres.
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