Merge pull request #946 from telefonicaid/revert-945-revert-942-task/default_attribute_value_null_instead_blank

Task/default attribute value null instead blank

Author: fgalan

CHANGES_NEXT_RELEASE

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+Use null instead of ' ' as default attribute value in entity provisioned (#938)
 Add: defaultEntityNameConjunction config (env var IOTA_DEFAULT_ENTITY_NAME_CONJUNCTION) and configuration group API field for default entity_name conjunction (#944)
 Add basic NGSI-LD support as experimental feature (#842)
 - Active measures

lib/constants.js

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 const LOCATION_DEFAULT = '0, 0';
 const DATETIME_DEFAULT = '1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z';
-const ATTRIBUTE_DEFAULT = ' ';
+const ATTRIBUTE_DEFAULT = null;
 
 /**
  * Provides a default value for DateTime, GeoProperty and Property Attributes.
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ module.exports = {
     MONGO_ALARM: 'MONGO-ALARM',
     ORION_ALARM: 'ORION-ALARM',
     IOTAM_ALARM: 'IOTAM-ALARM',
+    
     ATTRIBUTE_DEFAULT,
     DATETIME_DEFAULT,
 

test/unit/examples/contextRequests/createMinimumProvisionedDevice.json

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
         {
           "name": "attr_name",
           "type": "string",
-          "value": " "
+          "value": null
         }
       ]
     }

test/unit/examples/contextRequests/createProvisionedDevice.json

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
         {
           "name": "attr_name",
           "type": "string",
-          "value": " "
+          "value": null
         },
         {
           "name": "hardcodedAttr",

test/unit/examples/contextRequests/createProvisionedDeviceMultientity.json

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
         {
           "name": "attr_name",
           "type": "string",
-          "value": " "
+          "value": null
         },
         {
           "name": "hardcodedAttr",

test/unit/examples/contextRequests/createProvisionedDeviceWithGroup.json

@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
         {
           "name": "attr_name",
           "type": "string",
-          "value": " "
+          "value": null
         },
         {
           "name": "status",
           "type": "Boolean",
-          "value": " "
+          "value": null
         },
         {
           "name": "hardcodedAttr",

test/unit/examples/contextRequests/createProvisionedDeviceWithGroupAndStatic.json

@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
         {
           "name": "attr_name",
           "type": "string",
-          "value": " "
+          "value": null
         },
         {
           "name": "status",
           "type": "Boolean",
-          "value": " "
+          "value": null
         },
         {
           "name": "hardcodedAttr",

test/unit/examples/contextRequests/createProvisionedDeviceWithGroupAndStatic2.json

@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
         {
           "name": "attr_name",
           "type": "string",
-          "value": " "
+          "value": null
         },
         {
           "name": "status",
           "type": "Boolean",
-          "value": " "
+          "value": null
         },
         {
           "name": "hardcodedAttr",

test/unit/examples/contextRequests/createTimeinstantDevice.json

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
         {
           "name": "TimeInstant",
           "type": "ISO8601",
-          "value": " "
+          "value": null
         }
       ]
     }

test/unit/examples/contextRequests/updateContext5.json

@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@
         "attributes": [{
                 "name": "state",
                 "type": "Boolean",
-                "value": " "
+                "value": null
             },
             {
                 "name": "dimming",
                 "type": "Percentage",
-                "value": " "
+                "value": null
             }
         ]
     }],
     "updateAction": "APPEND"
-}
+}