From 51a456bcf9119fba7aa3a0f42fca7febac474879 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Deimos <deimos@tildes.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:26:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ArrayOfLtree: fix handling of "null" string value

If a topic tag is set to "null", the data in the column will have double
quotes around it (to distinguish it from an actual null value). This
wasn't being handled and would cause a crash when trying to parse the
value.
---
 tildes/tildes/lib/database.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tildes/tildes/lib/database.py b/tildes/tildes/lib/database.py
index e3d17bc..8059ec7 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/lib/database.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/lib/database.py
@@ -118,6 +118,11 @@ class ArrayOfLtree(ARRAY):
             if not value:
                 return []
 
+            # the only case where there might be an escaped item (surrounded by double
+            # quotes) is the string "null" - all other causes of escaping aren't valid
+            # for ltree values
+            value = value.replace('"null"', "null")
+
             return value.split(",")
 
         def process(value: Optional[str]) -> Optional[list[str]]: