Item14527: TopicStubAgent does not clear TEXT when an existing topic is replaced by a stub

TopicStubAgent Line 85 establishes a topic object. When the topic exixsts, it will have $text. This should be cleared because the topic is replaced by a stub.

-- BramVanOosterhout - 09 Nov 2017

It's been a while, but I have finally worked out that the observed behavior is the desired behavior. If the destination topic exists, TopicStubAgent merges the stub fields with the existing topic. This is consistent with the behavior of TopicAgent.

To modify the behavior, I propose to add a switch: replace to the parameter list of TopicStubAgent and update TopicStubAgent to do a Topicsave , instead of a save, removing the text as it does so.

Questions

• Does this run counter to other uses of TopicStubAgent?
• Should TopicAgent also have a replace parameter?

-- BramVanOosterhout - 15 May 2020

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