From 297bf978ef6b499c203199d866ca1f018dae16a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Plitzner <p.plitzner@bgbm.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:19:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Empty text fields return empty string and not null

---
 .../taxeditor/ui/element/TextWithLabelElement.java         | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.store/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/taxeditor/ui/element/TextWithLabelElement.java b/eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.store/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/taxeditor/ui/element/TextWithLabelElement.java
index 5d666156c..d5f7b3105 100644
--- a/eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.store/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/taxeditor/ui/element/TextWithLabelElement.java
+++ b/eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.store/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/taxeditor/ui/element/TextWithLabelElement.java
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
  */
 package eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.ui.element;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
 import org.eclipse.swt.events.KeyAdapter;
 import org.eclipse.swt.events.KeyEvent;
@@ -152,11 +151,7 @@ public class TextWithLabelElement extends AbstractCdmFormElement implements Modi
      * @return a {@link java.lang.String} object.
      */
     public String getText() {
-    	if (StringUtils.isBlank(text.getText())){
-    		return null;
-    	}else{
-    		return text.getText();
-    	}
+        return text.getText();
     }
 
     /**
-- 
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