From 2975110c785646c771f648523b918f22f02b44d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zsloan
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:26:20 +0000
Subject: Account for empty strings in get_string function

---
 wqflask/utility/type_checking.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'wqflask/utility')

diff --git a/wqflask/utility/type_checking.py b/wqflask/utility/type_checking.py
index 00f14ba9..5e98f4ae 100644
--- a/wqflask/utility/type_checking.py
+++ b/wqflask/utility/type_checking.py
@@ -42,6 +42,6 @@ def get_int(vars_obj, name, default=None):
 
 def get_string(vars_obj, name, default=None):
     if name in vars_obj:
-        if not vars_obj[name] is None:
+        if not vars_obj[name] is None and not vars_obj[name] == "":
             return str(vars_obj[name])
     return default
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