From eeb739c3ebb5fea348100d49446660e742b8471e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Katja Luther <k.luther@bgbm.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:23:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] #4653 if a text field is empty, getText returns null instead
 of an empty string

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

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 d5f7b3105..5d666156c 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
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  */
 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;
@@ -151,7 +152,11 @@ public class TextWithLabelElement extends AbstractCdmFormElement implements Modi
      * @return a {@link java.lang.String} object.
      */
     public String getText() {
-        return text.getText();
+    	if (StringUtils.isBlank(text.getText())){
+    		return null;
+    	}else{
+    		return text.getText();
+    	}
     }
 
     /**
-- 
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