Empty additional boards URLs input generates incorrect board_manager#additional_urls entry in the CLI config

[kittaakos]

Describe the problem

When I manually edit the additional URLs <input> and leave it empty, then the additional URLs will be incorrectly persisted into the CLI config.

To reproduce

Due to #881, I manually edited the 3rd party URL <input> here:

I wanted to dig into #876 so I copied this additional URLs string into the <input> and restarted the IDE:

http://digistump.com/package_digistump_index.json,http://www.leonardomiliani.com/repository/package_leonardomiliani.com_index.json,https://ambasat.com/boards/package_ambasat-1.com_index.json,https://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json,https://dl.espressif.com/dl/package_esp32_index.json,https://files.seeedstudio.com/arduino/package_seeeduino_boards_index.json,https://mcudude.github.io/MightyCore/package_MCUdude_MightyCore_index.json,https://rabidprototypes.com/arduino/package_rabidprototypes_index.json,https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lauszus/Sanguino/master/package_lauszus_sanguino_index.json,https://resource.heltec.cn/download/package_CubeCell_index.json,https://resource.heltec.cn/download/package_heltec_esp32_index.json,https://resource.heltec.cn/download/package_heltec_esp8266_index.json

The index update was successful.

I wanted to check how fast the IDE starts without any 3rd party URLs so I deleted (select all and delete) the content form the 3rd party URLs<input>, closed the settings dialog, and restarted the app.

I have seen a lot of errors in the backend log such as these:

daemon INFO URL: 
daemon INFO Updating index [url: ://]
daemon INFO URL: https://downloads.arduino.cc/packages/package_index.json
daemon INFO Updating index [url: https://downloads.arduino.cc/packages/package_index.json]
root INFO Updating index: package_index.json completed.
root INFO Updating index: package_index.json.sig completed.
root ERROR Error while updating index in attempt 4. Error: 13 INTERNAL: Error downloading index '': Get "": unsupported protocol scheme ""
    at Object.callErrorFromStatus (/Users/akos.kitta/Desktop/arduino-ide/node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js/build/src/call.js:31:26)
    at Object.onReceiveStatus (/Users/akos.kitta/Desktop/arduino-ide/node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js/build/src/client.js:330:49)
    at Object.onReceiveStatus (/Users/akos.kitta/Desktop/arduino-ide/node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js/build/src/client-interceptors.js:299:181)
    at /Users/akos.kitta/Desktop/arduino-ide/node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js/build/src/call-stream.js:145:78
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:78:11)
daemon INFO Checking signature [error: opening signature file: open /var/folders/g0/n_2cw4ds44l2byzv39xrc4340000gp/T/792020501.sig: no such file or directory, index: /var/folders/g0/n_2cw4ds44l2byzv39xrc4340000gp/T/792020501, signaturefile: /var/folders/g0/n_2cw4ds44l2byzv39xrc4340000gp/T/792020501.sig]

So I checked the generated CLI config. It's incorrect:

cat ~/.arduinoIDE/arduino-cli.yaml
board_manager:
  additional_urls:
  - ""
daemon:
  port: "50051"
directories:
  data: /Users/akos.kitta/Library/Arduino15
  downloads: /Users/akos.kitta/Library/Arduino15/staging
  user: /Users/akos.kitta/Documents/Arduino
ide:
  bundled: false
  portable: false
library:
  enable_unsafe_install: false
locale: en
logging:
  file: ""
  format: text
  level: info
metrics:
  addr: :9090
  enabled: true
output:
  no_color: false
sketch:
  always_export_binaries: false
updater:
  enable_notification: true

Expected behavior

Generate the following CLI config when there are no 3rd party URLs specified.

board_manager:
  additional_urls:
daemon:
  port: "50051"
directories:
  data: /Users/akos.kitta/Library/Arduino15
  downloads: /Users/akos.kitta/Library/Arduino15/staging
  user: /Users/akos.kitta/Documents/Arduino
ide:
  bundled: false
  portable: false
library:
  enable_unsafe_install: false
locale: en
logging:
  file: ""
  format: text
  level: info
metrics:
  addr: :9090
  enabled: true
output:
  no_color: false
sketch:
  always_export_binaries: false
updater:
  enable_notification: true

OR

board_manager:
daemon:
  port: "50051"
directories:
  data: /Users/akos.kitta/Library/Arduino15
  downloads: /Users/akos.kitta/Library/Arduino15/staging
  user: /Users/akos.kitta/Documents/Arduino
ide:
  bundled: false
  portable: false
library:
  enable_unsafe_install: false
locale: en
logging:
  file: ""
  format: text
  level: info
metrics:
  addr: :9090
  enabled: true
output:
  no_color: false
sketch:
  always_export_binaries: false
updater:
  enable_notification: true

Arduino IDE version

HEAD of the main branch (git rev-parse --short HEAD ca1c240)

Operating system

macOS

Operating system version

11.6.5 (20G527)

Additional context

No response

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