From acfc67a20dd4dc21a17e3960b5287574c3550a41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: s-heppner <mail@s-heppner.com>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 19:59:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add test for empty field values

In #4, we thought that a completely empty field value causes a non-
descriptive error message. This must have been a different error, since
I could not reproduce it again.

However, to be sure, this adds a unittest with a completely empty field
value.

Fixes #4
---
 test/test_parser.py | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/test/test_parser.py b/test/test_parser.py
index 497b787..26621e5 100644
--- a/test/test_parser.py
+++ b/test/test_parser.py
@@ -157,6 +157,31 @@ def test_field_with_url_and_brackets(self) -> None:
         expected = "\\url{https://example.org/query?x=1&y=2}"
         self.assertEqual(expected, actual)
 
+    def test_empty_field_value(self) -> None:
+        bibtex_string = """@misc{test_entry,
+          note = ,
+        }"""
+        entry = BibTeXEntry.from_string(bibtex_string)
+        actual = entry.fields.get("note")
+        expected = ""
+        self.assertEqual(expected, actual)
+
+        bibtex_string = """@misc{test_entry,
+                  note = {},
+                }"""
+        entry = BibTeXEntry.from_string(bibtex_string)
+        actual = entry.fields.get("note")
+        expected = ""
+        self.assertEqual(expected, actual)
+
+        bibtex_string = """@misc{test_entry,
+                  note = {{}},
+                }"""
+        entry = BibTeXEntry.from_string(bibtex_string)
+        actual = entry.fields.get("note")
+        expected = ""
+        self.assertEqual(expected, actual)
+
 
 class TestSplitEntries(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_single_entry(self) -> None: