per bug 41244 and 41303, handle null or false params in TextContent constructor

Instead of throwing exception in these cases (which there are use cases for),
create an empty TextContent object.

Change-Id: Ice30ea78428d95805aa56cd3a35405aa67ad10ab

diff --git a/includes/content/TextContent.php b/includes/content/TextContent.php
index 74c5a88..048ac39 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/content/TextContent.php
+++ b/includes/content/TextContent.php
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ class TextContent extends AbstractContent {
        public function __construct( $text, $model_id = CONTENT_MODEL_TEXT ) {
                parent::__construct( $model_id );
 
+               if ( $text === null || $text === false ) {
+                       $text = '';
+               }
+
                if ( !is_string( $text ) ) {
                        throw new MWException( "TextContent expects a string in the constructor." );
                }