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When you upload a scap content (and probably any other DS), the data in the database gets whitespace stripped:

% diff -u tests/test_playbooks/data/ssg-firefox-ds.xml ~/Downloads/ssg-firefox-ds.xml  
--- tests/test_playbooks/data/ssg-firefox-ds.xml    2020-03-25 13:55:54.952567896 +0100
+++ /home/evgeni/Downloads/ssg-firefox-ds.xml    2020-03-25 15:05:39.476260242 +0100
@@ -4012,4 +4012,4 @@
       </ns12:cpe-item>
     </ns12:cpe-list>
   </ns0:component>
-</ns0:data-stream-collection>
+</ns0:data-stream-collection>
\ No newline at end of file

this is rather annoying when you want to check the computed digest against the local file sha256, as they will not match

quoting irc for why this happens:

< tbrisker> Zhenech: i think i may know what it is, let me find the line
< tbrisker> Zhenech: https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/blob/develop/app/models/concerns/strip_whitespace.rb
< tbrisker> Zhenech: the fix it to define `skip_strip_attrs` to an array containing the column you don't want modified