interesting person entry...

Dear Joachim Schmitz,

Thank you for infroming us.  The object does follow the rules for the
person object.  Currently, a warning is given as follows:
"WARNING:     removed empty line(s) in attribute: <attribute>".

These are my experiments in the test database;

Here is the original e-mail message:

person:      Dober Mann
address:     Dog Town
address:
address:
phone:       +41
phone:       +41
phone:       +41
fax-no:      +42
e-mail:     
nic-hdl:     AUTO-1
remarks:     
notify:      
mnt-by:      AMRM1-TEST-MNT
changed:     ripe-dbm at ripe.net  960926
source:      TEST

Here is the acknowledgement:

New OK: [person] DM1-RIPE (Dober Mann)

person:      Dober Mann
address:     Dog Town
phone:       +41
phone:       +41
phone:       +41
fax-no:      +42
nic-hdl:     DM1-RIPE
mnt-by:      AMRM1-TEST-MNT
changed:     ripe-dbm at ripe.net 960926
source:      TEST
WARNING:     removed empty line(s) in attribute: "address"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Remember "address" is a mandatory attribute.  Empty optional
attributes were removed.

This may not have been the case when this object was created.

I have just seen your follow-up message.  I will certainly 
investigate !

Regards,

Ambrose Magee
____________________________
RIPE Database Administration.

 Schmitz at rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Joachim Schmitz) writes:
 * 
 *  Dear colleagues, dear Ambrose,
 * 
 *  by accident I discovered a person entry which in its form is definitely
 *  not wanted:
 * 
 * *pn: Stefan Seiz
 * *ad: Herdweg 73
 * *ad:                               \
 *   ...                               > 128 empty address lines!!!
 * *ad:                               /
 * *ad: 70174 Stuttgart
 * *ad: Germany
 * *ph: +49 711 18748-0
 * *fx: +49 711 18748-32
 * *em: index at schwaben.com
 * *nh: SSE2-RIPE
 * *ny: noc at ecrc.de
 * *ch: wer at ecrc.de 951115
 * *so: RIPE
 * 
 *  I am in no position to decide whether the entry was done including these
 *  empty lines or whether this is an error of the database software.
 * 
 *  I think a check should be implemented during acceptance of new database
 *  objects (or updates) which 
 *  - removes empty input lines (or fields which do contain nothing but
 *    white space)
 *  - afterwards checks whether all mandatory fields for the object are filled
 *    in should be done
 *  (actually I expect such a test to be performed anyway...)
 * 
 *  Could anybody please check what is wrong here?
 *  Thank you!
 * 
 *     Joachim
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