show-exceptions-with-empty-detail

docs/changelog.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 ## [UNRELEASED]
+### Fixed
+- stop ignoring exceptions with detail as an empty string when returning api errors.
 
 ## [0.14.0] - 2024-06-19
 ### Added

drf_standardized_errors/formatter.py

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ def flatten_errors(
     errors = []
     while fifo:
         detail, attr, index = fifo.pop(0)
-        if not detail:
+        if not detail and detail != "":
             continue
         elif isinstance(detail, list):
             for item in detail:

tests/test_flatten_errors.py

@@ -118,3 +118,11 @@ def test_does_not_raise_recursion_error():
             "Failed due to a recursion error. Use an iterative approach rather than "
             "a recursive one to avoid reaching the maximum recursion depth in python."
         )
+
+
+def test_exception_with_detail_empty():
+    detail = {"some_field": [ErrorDetail("", code="invalid")]}
+    errors = flatten_errors(detail)
+    assert len(errors) == 1
+    assert errors[0].attr == "some_field"
+    assert errors[0].detail == ""