From f005ecb1827b6bcd24211aa812300c680c22b590 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damiano Fiorenza <damiano.fiorenza@4science.it>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 12:25:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [DSC-1198] add check to prevent empty metadata values with no
 authority from creating related entities

---
 dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/authority/CrisConsumer.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/authority/CrisConsumer.java b/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/authority/CrisConsumer.java
index eec4412c0c98..3321b09b5471 100644
--- a/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/authority/CrisConsumer.java
+++ b/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/authority/CrisConsumer.java
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ private boolean isMetadataSkippable(MetadataValue metadata) {
             return true;
         }
 
-        if (isBlank(authority) && isMetadataWithEmptyAuthoritySkippable(metadata)) {
+        if (isBlank(authority) && (isBlank(metadata.getValue()) || isMetadataWithEmptyAuthoritySkippable(metadata))) {
             return true;
         }