Input to submitToTurk must be non-empty #668
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Thanks so much for identifying this issue. I wonder if it would be appropriate to just add a dummy value when the submission is empty, like |
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Do you mean a code change in submitToTurk that detects that |
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@becky-gilbert I think we can merge this change to the docs. I'll open a separate issue about detecting that the data is empty. |
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If no data are submitted in submitToTurk the user will see an error ("HIT was not submitted correctly") and the task will not complete. This was non-obvious and hard to debug, and I suspect may be a particular problem in jsPsych where people are often saving their data elsewhere, as we were.
Added a note to the parameter documentation for submitToTurk to this effect.
(I appreciate that the downside is that this documents an implementation detail of MTurk which may change).