Empty value in bracketed inline data overwriting default value in table

What happened?

This error occurred on both deesktop & mobile versions of Obsidian

Frontmatter & unbracketed key-value pairs performed as expected, however an empty bracketed inline data overwrites a table’s default value with blank. Screenshot of source & preview mode attached.

issue can be recreated :

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Test1:

Test2:: [Test3::]

DQL

Table
  default(Test1, "👽") AS "1",
  default(Test2, "🛸") AS "2",
  default(Test3, "🐮") AS "3"
WHERE Type = "Test"

JS

No response

Dataview Version

0.4.26

Obsidian Version

0.13.33

OS

Windows

[AB1908]

Test1 and Test2 evaluate to undefined and null. Test2 is not indexed at all as you can see here:

default, per the docs, changes default values for values that are null, and also appears to work for undefined. However, Test3 has an empty string "", which is not null, which is why the field is not populating as you expect it to.

[s-blu]

Hello, sorry to come back to you so late. I currently go through older issues to see which are stale or already solved.

Theres a FR in #713 to be able to style non-bracketed inline fields. If I get you right, that’s what you want to have? If this is the only open point on this issue and if it’s okay, I’d like to close the issue in favor or #713.

That the bracketed inline field is set to an empty string as value is intended behaviour, as far as I can tell - in fact, it is the only way I am aware of to use an empty value.