From: Oleksii Shumeiko -X (oshumeik - SOFTSERVE INC at Cisco) <oshumeik@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:45:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Pull request #5213: framework: return original string if list is empty
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Pull request #5213: framework: return original string if list is empty

Merge in SNORT/snort3 from ~OSHUMEIK/snort3:dump_empty_list to master

Squashed commit of the following:

commit 5f227716feac1995e8671f6c1d544bae3d4c547a
Author: Oleksii Shumeiko <oshumeik@cisco.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 13 16:53:07 2026 +0200

    framework: return original string if list is empty

    Value returns original string when parsing failed to extract list items.
---

diff --git a/src/framework/value.cc b/src/framework/value.cc
index 6ece0c7be..bf3dd10be 100644
--- a/src/framework/value.cc
+++ b/src/framework/value.cc
@@ -271,6 +271,10 @@ std::string Value::get_origin_string() const
         value += token;
         value += " ";
     }
+
+    if ( value.empty() )
+        return origin_str;
+
     value.erase(value.size() - 1);
 
     return value;