From 558e3fd23286059d07eb3b03d43cc3fe42ca55b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Riedesel <mark@klowner.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 17:40:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] hopefully fix STaticField

---
 pyaccuwage/fields.py | 6 ++++--
 tests/test_fields.py | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pyaccuwage/fields.py b/pyaccuwage/fields.py
index 0d6fcd3..27c10dc 100644
--- a/pyaccuwage/fields.py
+++ b/pyaccuwage/fields.py
@@ -198,12 +198,14 @@ class StaticField(TextField):
     def __init__(self, name=None, required=True, value=None):
         super(StaticField, self).__init__(name=name, required=required,
                                             max_length=len(value))
-        self._value = value
+        self._static_value = value
+
+    def get_data(self):
+        return str(self._static_value).encode('ascii')[:self.max_length]
 
     def parse(self, s):
         pass
 
-
 class BlankField(TextField):
     is_read_only = True
 
diff --git a/tests/test_fields.py b/tests/test_fields.py
index 3d8fd3e..2d32755 100644
--- a/tests/test_fields.py
+++ b/tests/test_fields.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import unittest
 from pyaccuwage.fields import TextField
+from pyaccuwage.fields import StaticField
 # from pyaccuwage.fields import IntegerField
 # from pyaccuwage.fields import StateField
 # from pyaccuwage.fields import BlankField
@@ -31,3 +32,8 @@ class TestTextField(unittest.TestCase):
         data = field.get_data()
         self.assertEqual(len(data), field.max_length)
         self.assertEqual(data, b'HELLO,')
+
+class TestStaticField(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_static_field(self):
+        field = StaticField(value='TEST')
+        self.assertEqual(field.get_data(), b'TEST')