From 7e3ec16e158d4be9f43c496cf074a7f322b3e7e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Nelson <daniel.nelson@influxdb.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:57:35 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Allow empty string field values

---
 metric/metric.go | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/metric/metric.go b/metric/metric.go
index 23c48697..0af445c2 100644
--- a/metric/metric.go
+++ b/metric/metric.go
@@ -247,11 +247,7 @@ func convertField(v interface{}) interface{} {
 	case int64:
 		return v
 	case string:
-		if v == "" {
-			return nil
-		} else {
-			return v
-		}
+		return v
 	case bool:
 		return v
 	case int:
-- 
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