[2.0.3] get() fails to return an empty string correctly

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Hi,

when trying to retrieve an empty value get() returns a result similair to key not found instead of an empty string (as was the case in the library v1).

Sample code to reproduce :


$cluster = new CouchbaseCluster('....','test','');
$bucket = $cluster->openBucket('test');

$bucket->insert('empty','');
var_dump($bucket->get('empty'));

Result :

object(CouchbaseMetaDoc)#4 (4) {
  ["error"]=>
  NULL
  ["value"]=>
  NULL
  ["flags"]=>
  int(67108864)
  ["cas"]=>
  resource(5) of type (CouchbaseCAS)
}

Expected result : having “value” containing “” (empty string) instead of null.
The decoder function is not called.

My guess is that the code in transcoding.c, in function pcbc_bytes_to_zval :


	if (nbytes == 0) {
		MAKE_STD_ZVAL(*zvalue);
		ZVAL_NULL(*zvalue);
		return SUCCESS;
	}

short-circuits the standard zval creation process.

In the previous library version (1.1.2) the library returned an empty string as expected.

Would it be possible to revert to this previous behaviour ?

Tested on the master branch (rev 3b71531b4d7203707067ab8f6bfdfd11bfadb1e5).

2

Hey excession,

You are correct that a 0-length string stored should return a blank string rather than null. Here is a ticket for this issue: https://issues.couchbase.com/browse/PCBC-326.

Cheers, Brett