Hi,

I seem to have stumbled upon an inconsistency with Nested Content compared to normal content types.

When I have a textbox, enter data and save the node it gets written to the umbraco.config like so:

<propertyName><![CDATA[Text goes here]]></propertyName>

If I then remove the text from the box, the entire property is removed from the umbraco.config.

Nested Content saves the JSON data the same way. This is all fine and as expected.

HOWEVER. Upon deleting all items from my Nested Content, it will still save as JSON data with an empty array like so:

<nestedContentProperty><![CDATA[[]]]></nestedContentProperty>

This means the property isn't removed from the umbraco.config. Which causes an inconsistency with the way GetPropertyValue<>() works.

Because when I try to retrieve this data recursively, like so:

ipublishedContent.GetPropertyValue<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("propertyName", true)

it will ALWAYS get a result back, in this case an empty IEnumberable. This means it won't look at the parents node value. It will just decide that the current node has the data I need.

In my opinion, this is inconsistent with how the other property types work and would love to see this changed.

-Ferdy