intakeNotifyEmail and intakeCeilingResetAt both document empty as their default and as a working configuration — no notification address, and no ceiling reset recorded. The validator refused every empty text value, so either could be set and then never removed through the admin at all; the only way back was a DELETE against admin_settings. An admin who turned intake notifications on could not turn them off.
Whether empty is a mistake is a fact about the setting rather than about its type, so it is now declared on the setting, in the DEFINITIONS row that already carries its type and fallback. A new setting states it once, in the place someone adding one is already editing, and nothing else has to know. That is what makes this different from special-casing two names in the validator, which would have left the next such setting to rediscover the same bug.
The blanket refusal stays the default, because for a setting with a non-empty fallback an empty value really is a mistake: an empty greeting format renders every greeting as nothing at all, which reads as a broken email rather than as something a person cleared. Both those cases keep their tests.
Whitespace is normalised to empty rather than stored. Somebody clearing a field they cannot see the end of leaves spaces behind, and they meant cleared.
The tests check that the clearing survives the request rather than only being echoed back — the last one sets a value, clears it, and then reads it again through GET, which is the assertion that would have caught this had it existed.
intakeNotifyEmail and intakeCeilingResetAt both document empty as their default and as a working configuration — no notification address, and no ceiling reset recorded. The validator refused every empty text value, so either could be set and then never removed through the admin at all; the only way back was a DELETE against admin_settings. An admin who turned intake notifications on could not turn them off.
Whether empty is a mistake is a fact about the setting rather than about its type, so it is now declared on the setting, in the DEFINITIONS row that already carries its type and fallback. A new setting states it once, in the place someone adding one is already editing, and nothing else has to know. That is what makes this different from special-casing two names in the validator, which would have left the next such setting to rediscover the same bug.
The blanket refusal stays the default, because for a setting with a non-empty fallback an empty value really is a mistake: an empty greeting format renders every greeting as nothing at all, which reads as a broken email rather than as something a person cleared. Both those cases keep their tests.
Whitespace is normalised to empty rather than stored. Somebody clearing a field they cannot see the end of leaves spaces behind, and they meant cleared.
The tests check that the clearing survives the request rather than only being echoed back — the last one sets a value, clears it, and then reads it again through GET, which is the assertion that would have caught this had it existed.
Closes #280
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
intakeNotifyEmail and intakeCeilingResetAt both document empty as their default and as a working configuration — no notification address, and no ceiling reset recorded. The validator refused every empty text value, so either could be set and then never removed through the admin at all; the only way back was a DELETE against admin_settings. An admin who turned intake notifications on could not turn them off.
Whether empty is a mistake is a fact about the setting rather than about its type, so it is now declared on the setting, in the DEFINITIONS row that already carries its type and fallback. A new setting states it once, in the place someone adding one is already editing, and nothing else has to know. That is what makes this different from special-casing two names in the validator, which would have left the next such setting to rediscover the same bug.
The blanket refusal stays the default, because for a setting with a non-empty fallback an empty value really is a mistake: an empty greeting format renders every greeting as nothing at all, which reads as a broken email rather than as something a person cleared. Both those cases keep their tests.
Whitespace is normalised to empty rather than stored. Somebody clearing a field they cannot see the end of leaves spaces behind, and they meant cleared.
The tests check that the clearing survives the request rather than only being echoed back — the last one sets a value, clears it, and then reads it again through GET, which is the assertion that would have caught this had it existed.
Closes#280
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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intakeNotifyEmail and intakeCeilingResetAt both document empty as their default and as a working configuration — no notification address, and no ceiling reset recorded. The validator refused every empty text value, so either could be set and then never removed through the admin at all; the only way back was a DELETE against admin_settings. An admin who turned intake notifications on could not turn them off.
Whether empty is a mistake is a fact about the setting rather than about its type, so it is now declared on the setting, in the DEFINITIONS row that already carries its type and fallback. A new setting states it once, in the place someone adding one is already editing, and nothing else has to know. That is what makes this different from special-casing two names in the validator, which would have left the next such setting to rediscover the same bug.
The blanket refusal stays the default, because for a setting with a non-empty fallback an empty value really is a mistake: an empty greeting format renders every greeting as nothing at all, which reads as a broken email rather than as something a person cleared. Both those cases keep their tests.
Whitespace is normalised to empty rather than stored. Somebody clearing a field they cannot see the end of leaves spaces behind, and they meant cleared.
The tests check that the clearing survives the request rather than only being echoed back — the last one sets a value, clears it, and then reads it again through GET, which is the assertion that would have caught this had it existed.
Closes #280
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 noreply@anthropic.com