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--- a/python-modules/cis_publisher/cis_publisher/publisher.py
+++ b/python-modules/cis_publisher/cis_publisher/publisher.py
@@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ class Publish:
else:
user_id = profile.user_id.value
+            # Fixups and cleanups
+            self.filter_profiles_cleanup(profiles=[profile])
+
# Filter out non-updatable attributes as needed
self.filter_known_cis_users(profiles=[profile])
@@ -313,6 +316,29 @@ class Publish:
raise PublisherError("Failed to query CIS Person API", response.text)
return User(response.json())
+    def filter_profiles_cleanup(self, profiles=None):
+        """
+        Fixups for any potential issue - this runs before any additional filtering is done on the profiles
+        """
+        self.__deferred_init()
+        if profiles is None:
+            profiles = self.profiles
+
+        # Remove any empty-string value as Dynamo does not know how to handle these. None are OK.
+        for n in range(0, len(profiles)):
+            p = profiles[n]
+            for field in p.as_dict():
+                if isinstance(field, str):
+                    continue  # schema
+                f = field.get("value", field.get("values"))
+                if f is not None and len(f) == 0:
+                    if field.get("value") is not None:
+                        profiles[n][field]["value"] = " "
+                    elif field.get("values") is not None:
+                        profiles[n][field]["values"] = " "
+        self.profiles = profiles
+        return profiles
+
def filter_known_cis_users(self, profiles=None, save=True):
"""
Filters out fields that are not allowed to be updated by this publisher from the profile before posting