From 31bb8ba21d2e01a53679880f684bbc4f01255753 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Deklan Dieterly <deklan.dieterly@hp.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 14:36:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Always store value_meta

If value_meta is null or blank, store an empty string.

Change-Id: I6286d9b2f30b6ee6f8839c80c690721af09c5e75
---
 .../persister/repository/influxdb/InfluxV9MetricRepo.java   | 6 +++++-
 test-requirements.txt                                       | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/java/src/main/java/monasca/persister/repository/influxdb/InfluxV9MetricRepo.java b/java/src/main/java/monasca/persister/repository/influxdb/InfluxV9MetricRepo.java
index feb2e4f3..2435306b 100644
--- a/java/src/main/java/monasca/persister/repository/influxdb/InfluxV9MetricRepo.java
+++ b/java/src/main/java/monasca/persister/repository/influxdb/InfluxV9MetricRepo.java
@@ -95,7 +95,11 @@ public class InfluxV9MetricRepo extends InfluxMetricRepo {
 
     String valueMetaJSONString = measurement.getValueMetaJSONString();
 
-    if (valueMetaJSONString != null) {
+    if (valueMetaJSONString == null) {
+
+      valueMap.put("value_meta", "");
+
+    } else {
 
       valueMap.put("value_meta", valueMetaJSONString);
 
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index eec19959..fc30489d 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 hacking>=0.9.2,<0.10
-pyflakes
 nose
-mock>=1.0.1
+mock>=1.0.1
\ No newline at end of file