From ea05c7141038399f2c5c2f3e7a815eccd044830f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Enrique Zamudio <alterbass@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:20:05 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] tests for #64

---
 src/test/java/com/solab/iso8583/TestConfigParser.java | 8 ++++++++
 src/test/resources/issue64.xml                        | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/test/resources/issue64.xml

diff --git a/src/test/java/com/solab/iso8583/TestConfigParser.java b/src/test/java/com/solab/iso8583/TestConfigParser.java
index d9604e6..71fc89e 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/solab/iso8583/TestConfigParser.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/solab/iso8583/TestConfigParser.java
@@ -220,4 +220,12 @@ public class TestConfigParser {
 		Assert.assertEquals(IsoType.ALPHA, nestedField4.getType());
 		Assert.assertEquals(13, nestedField4.getLength());
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testEmptyFields() throws IOException, ParseException {
+        final MessageFactory<IsoMessage> mfact = config("issue64.xml");
+        IsoMessage msg = mfact.newMessage(0x200);
+        Assert.assertEquals("", msg.getObjectValue(3));
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/test/resources/issue64.xml b/src/test/resources/issue64.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..33ffbd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/issue64.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<j8583-config>
+
+    <template type="0200">
+        <field num="3" type="NUMERIC" length="6"></field>
+    </template>
+
+</j8583-config>