fix in the pl driver, for when updating users without changing 'email'

diff --git a/sfa/planetlab/pldriver.py b/sfa/planetlab/pldriver.py
index 3191182..e4330e8 100644 (file)
--- a/sfa/planetlab/pldriver.py
+++ b/sfa/planetlab/pldriver.py
@@ -160,6 +160,10 @@ class PlDriver (Driver):
                            'password', 'phone', 'url', 'bio', 'accepted_aup',
                            'enabled']:
                     update_fields[key] = all_fields[key]
+            # when updating a user, we always get a 'email' field at this point
+            # this is because 'email' is a native field in the RegUser object...
+            if 'email' in update_fields and not update_fields['email']:
+                del update_fields['email']
             self.shell.UpdatePerson(pointer, update_fields)
     
             if new_key: