[TYPO3-mvc] Should a DateTime field with an empty value be saved as 0 ?

[Laurent Foulloy]

Hi,

When a DateTime field with an empty value is input, it is not saved in 
the database and the previous saved value is returned.
In order to have the same behaviour as in the backend, a zero value 
should be saved.

I do not know if it is a bug or the regular expected behaviour.

If it is a bug, it can be simply corrected by changing:

if ($propertyValue === '') {
   $propertyValue = NULL;
} else {

into

if ($propertyValue === '') {
   $propertyValue = 0;
} else {

in transformToObject() in the class Tx_Extbase_Property_Mapper.

Doing so will avoid the field to be skipped in map().

Regards

Laurent