From 71485bee9b5a4de8fb4b4d721a88ae4ee5b59129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Joshua \"jag\" Ginsberg" <jag.ginsberg@hungryroot.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:06:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Null values for not-required strings are treated as empty
 strings

Fixes #187
---
 django_jsonform/validators.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/django_jsonform/validators.py b/django_jsonform/validators.py
index 07a95f7..bcf5633 100644
--- a/django_jsonform/validators.py
+++ b/django_jsonform/validators.py
@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ def validate_string(self, schema, data, coords, raise_exc=False):
             trimmed_data = data.strip()
         else:
             trimmed_data = data
+            data = data or ""
 
         is_empty = not trimmed_data