From 7e8315e7a6ea08bdb55354aab5aaa04dadfd380d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bottersnike <bottersnike237@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 23:51:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Permit zero-length strings for about me

---
 client/src/app/pages/dashboard/users/UserPage.tsx  |  2 +-
 .../router/api/v1/users/_userID/router.test.ts     | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/client/src/app/pages/dashboard/users/UserPage.tsx b/client/src/app/pages/dashboard/users/UserPage.tsx
index 6d449d9d6..001f6011a 100644
--- a/client/src/app/pages/dashboard/users/UserPage.tsx
+++ b/client/src/app/pages/dashboard/users/UserPage.tsx
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ function AboutMeCard({ reqUser }: Props) {
 				headers: {
 					"Content-Type": "application/json",
 				},
-				body: JSON.stringify({ about: content.length === 0 ? null : content }),
+				body: JSON.stringify({ about: content }),
 			},
 			true,
 			true
diff --git a/server/src/server/router/api/v1/users/_userID/router.test.ts b/server/src/server/router/api/v1/users/_userID/router.test.ts
index cd2a96bec..a2f33ed82 100644
--- a/server/src/server/router/api/v1/users/_userID/router.test.ts
+++ b/server/src/server/router/api/v1/users/_userID/router.test.ts
@@ -120,6 +120,20 @@ t.test("PATCH /api/v1/users/:userID", async (t) => {
 		t.end();
 	});
 
+	t.test("Shouldn't allow empty strings for about me.", async (t) => {
+		const res = await mockApi.patch("/api/v1/users/1").set("Cookie", cookie).send({
+			about: "",
+		});
+
+		t.equal(res.statusCode, 200);
+
+		const dbUser = await db.users.findOne({ id: 1 });
+
+		t.equal(dbUser?.about, "");
+
+		t.end();
+	});
+
 	t.test("Shouldn't allow about me to be set to null.", async (t) => {
 		const res = await mockApi.patch("/api/v1/users/1").set("Cookie", cookie).send({
 			about: null,