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[Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

There is no cleanup done when you un-assign an attribute, so the values
will still be there.

@Mark: I guess you need to send in null, and not false for yes-only
attributes, we should probably fix on the backend also

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Morten Olav Hansen
Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
http://www.dhis2.org

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Aamer Mohammed <aamerm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Also in the second test case mentioned below.
>
>    - Now we marked that attribute is 'checked' in one of the data set
>    page of maintenance app. The api is returning the attribute value as 'true'
>    which is fine.  But when the attribute is 'unchecked' in the app, the api
>    is returning the value as 'false'. Should it not show up in the response as
>    it was in the first case? Is it expected behaviour? If so what is the
>    difference between "Yes Only" and "Yes No" attribute types?
>
> The api is returning the value as 'false' only for the data set which we
> have modified. The other data sets still do not show the attribute as it
> was in the first case. So the api is showing two different behaviours for
> the same test case.
> We have reproduced all of these in play demo instance itself.
>
> Could you please provide inputs for the same.
>
>
> Thanks
> Aamer.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Aamer Mohammed <aamerm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Morten,
>>
>> We have created an attribute called "isPrintable" with a value type -
>> "Yes Only" and assigned it to data set and program. We have few
>> clarifications on the below api
>> *
>> /api/dataSets.json?fields=id,name,attributeValues[:all,value,name,attribute[id,name,code]]*
>>
>>
>>    - Immediately after assigning the attribute to data set and program,
>>    we invoked the api. The api is not showing the attribute as part of the
>>    response as it is still 'unchecked' in the data set page of maintenance
>>    app. The attribute array is empty in the response.
>>    - Now we marked that attribute is 'checked' in the data set page of
>>    maintenance app. The api is returning the attribute value as 'true' which
>>    is fine.  But when the attribute is 'unchecked' in the app, the api is
>>    returning the value as 'false'. Should it not show up in the response as it
>>    was in the first case? Is it expected behaviour? If so what is the
>>    difference between "Yes Only" and "Yes No" attribute types?
>>    - Now we edited that attribute and unassigned it from data set and
>>    program. But the data set api is still showing the attribute in its
>>    response. It should not come up in the response right?
>>
>> Could you please provide inputs for the same.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Aamer.
>>
>>
>