Bug 976827

Summary:	Description text area in General properties tab under Alerts -> Definition is not getting set to blank one it has been edited. Instead it displays the previous value that was stored
Product:	[JBoss] JBoss Operations Network	Reporter:	Varun Khurana <vkhurana>
Component:	Monitoring - Alerts	Assignee:	Jirka Kremser <jkremser>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Mike Foley <mfoley>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	JON 3.2	CC:	ckannan
Target Milestone:	Alpha-x
Target Release:	JON 3.2.0
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Description Varun Khurana 2013-06-21 14:53:27 UTC

Description of problem:
Description text area in General properties tab under RHQ Storage Nodes -> CassandraJVM -> Memory Subsystem -> Alerts -> Definition is not getting set to blank one it has been edited. Instead it displays the previous value that was stored before setting it to blank.

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How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to  General properties tab under RHQ Storage Nodes -> CassandraJVM -> Memory Subsystem -> Alerts -> Definition
2. Click on any Alert definition. 
3. Click on Edit  button.
4. Change the value in 'Description' text area to some value. Click on Save.
5. Click on Edit button again. Change the value in 'Description' text area to blank.

Actual results:
It shows the previous value instead of blank in 'Description' text area

Expected results:
It should display blank in 'Description' text area.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Charles Crouch 2013-07-01 19:51:39 UTC

Per 7/1 BZ triage: target jon32

Jirka
If you *blank* out the description of an alert, we dont persist that empty field, instead the old value is maintained. If you edit the decription to have a new value, the new value is persisted. This is not Cassandra specific.

Comment 2 Jirka Kremser 2013-07-31 13:42:24 UTC

branch:  master
link:    http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/rhq/rhq.git/commit/?id=0db28524a
time:    2013-07-31 15:09:45 +0200
commit:  0db28524acf4160725c7b0101b7d923903ea93b0
author:  Jirka Kremser - jkremser
message: [BZ 976827] - Description text area in General properties tab under
         Alerts -> Definition is not getting set to blank one it has
         been edited. Instead it displays the previous value that was
         stored - setting an empty string if
         descriptionField.getValue() == null

Comment 3 Simeon Pinder 2013-08-26 15:36:27 UTC

Moving to ON_QA as available for testing in latest 3.2.x ALPHA 58 build:

https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com//buildinfo?buildID=291947