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Problems removing caption from image?

pe2smugmugpe2smugmug Registered Users Posts: 53 Big grins
edited January 13, 2008 in SmugMug API Support & Integrations
So I'm not sure if I'm making the call wrong, but to remove a caption from an image, I have been using
smugmug.images.changeSettings, and setting the "Caption" argument to be a string of length 0, but this doesn't seem to have any effect for me.

I'm using the JSON interface on 1.2.0.

Has anyone encountered this before or is it more likely a bug in my code?

Thanks,
Evan

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    pe2smugmugpe2smugmug Registered Users Posts: 53 Big grins
    edited January 13, 2008
    So some additional testing reveals that if I set the caption to a single space (ie. " "), then the caption appears to be properly deleted. Additional calls to get the caption show it to be saved as an empty string "".

    Is this standard was for deleting a string?
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    flyingdutchieflyingdutchie Registered Users Posts: 1,286 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2008
    pe2smugmug wrote:
    So some additional testing reveals that if I set the caption to a single space (ie. " "), then the caption appears to be properly deleted. Additional calls to get the caption show it to be saved as an empty string "".

    Is this standard was for deleting a string?

    Sending null or an empty string for many values ususally means: Do not update the string, leave it as it is.

    Same for an image's caption: Sending an empty string for Caption means "Don't update caption, leave it as it is."
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    pe2smugmugpe2smugmug Registered Users Posts: 53 Big grins
    edited January 13, 2008
    flyingdutchie wrote:
    Sending null or an empty string for many values ususally means: Do not update the string, leave it as it is.

    Same for an image's caption: Sending an empty string for Caption means "Don't update caption, leave it as it is."

    So what is the "correct" method for clearning a caption?
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