🐛 Bug Report: Pass in empty string as subscriber Email will trigger email validation.

[iqoOopi]

📜 Description

Currently when pass in empty string as subscriber email will get email validation error but null won't. Novu should treat empty string as null.

👟 Reproduction steps

1. call any api endpoint that can create a subscriber (create subscriber endpoint or trigger event endpoint) and pass empty string as email.

👍 Expected behavior

Should not return email validation error

👎 Actual Behavior with Screenshots

return email validation error

Novu version

self host novu

npm version

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node version

No response

📃 Provide any additional context for the Bug.

No response

👀 Have you spent some time to check if this bug has been raised before?

• I checked and didn't find a similar issue

🏢 Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

• I have read the Contributing Guidelines

Are you willing to submit PR?

None

[linear]

NV-6515 🐛 Bug Report: Pass in empty string as subscriber Email will trigger email validation.

[scopsy]

Thank you for the report! From data integrity perspective, we would prefer to keep the validation on any string values including empty strings. While null is an explicit falsy value passed by the developer. Is it possible on your end to pass a null value in case of empty value?

[scopsy]

Closing for now 🙏