fix(automated-curation): ISSUE-83 skipClassifiedElements empty-string bug

[dwolfson]

Summary

get_technology_type_elements(get_templates=True) built skipClassifiedElements as [skip_templates] where skip_templates was "" when get_templates=True — sending a one-element list containing an empty string, not an empty list. Egeria correctly rejects the empty classification name (OMAG-COMMON-400-018 "The type name ... is not recognized"), so every call with get_templates=True fails outright.

Found via a user report: a known live RelationalDatabase asset didn't appear browsing Technology Types → Postgres Relational Databases in egeria-workspaces' Tech Catalog, even though it was directly retrievable by GUID and correctly tagged (deployedImplementationType: "PostgreSQL Relational Database"). The failure is masked downstream — egeria-workspaces' tech_catalog_handler.py calls this with get_templates=True unconditionally and treats any "400" in the error message as "no elements found," so the whole listing silently renders empty instead of erroring.

Fix: skip_classified_elements = [] if get_templates else ["Template"]. Also corrected the method's docstring sample body, which showed the same [""] value as if it were correct usage.

Tracked as egeria-python ISSUE-83 in PYEGERIA_ISSUES.md.

Testing

Live-verified end-to-end, not just unit-tested: live-patched into quickstart-pyegeria-web's installed pyegeria (docker cp + restart, diff-confirmed), then curled the actual production route — it now returns the previously-missing asset correctly (15 items with templates included vs. 14 without, consistent).

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[dwolfson]

Superseded — cherry-picked this fix directly onto odpi/egeria-python@main (validated against the .http ground truth for skipClassifiedElements, confirmed no other file has the same [""] bug pattern) along with the pending 6.1.8 version bump: dwolfson/egeria-python@b923123c. Thanks for catching and fixing this!

[dwolfson]

Correction — I closed this in error saying it was superseded by a merge to odpi/egeria-python@main. That was wrong: I had actually only pushed the cherry-picked fix to dwolfson/egeria-python@main (a personal fork), not upstream — confirmed via git merge-base --is-ancestor d52f394e upstream/main (not an ancestor). Reopening this PR as the real path to land ISSUE-83 on the canonical repo. Apologies for the noise.