We have come into an issue with empty field searches returning no results.
For example, if First Name is null and you search using SOAP API then it returns a result but if we search for the First Name using an empty string i.e. '' , then it does not return a result.
Basically if we do an empty text search no matches are found via the SOAP API
Hello,
Can you provide the methods you are doing to search the record using SOAP?
Thank you,
Gian
We are using selectQuery()
SELECT id FROM object WHERE field = ""
Returns no rows even though there is an object with field as an empty string
If we create a row with a NULL field then we can successfully return it using
SELECT id FROM object WHERE field IS NULL
This is expected behavior because Rollbase stores as NULL in DB when we provide empty string to field
Thanks
Srinivas
We did consider that but that is not always the case.
Sometimes storing an empty string is converted to NULL as you say but sometimes it is stored as an empty string. Then the query does not locate the data even if you do an IS NULL comparison.
Haven’t managed to figure out which fields get converted to NULL and which go in as empty strings yet.
Hello Byron,
Can you pinpoint this? It might be different for each field types and how it handles the empty string/null value.
Thank you,
Gian