Beans not being displayed when added via the Context inline editor

There is a problem in render_ajax in context_reaction_block.inc in that it assumes that the block is only valid if it contains some #markup.

Beans work differently, yet they can still be rendered using the same method used in that function, it's just that the check to see if it should be rendered is not compatible with the way bean does things.

I'm attaching a patch which makes context "aware" of the way bean does things. I seem to have put more in the patch than I meant to (it's only a one-line fix) - sorry about that. I'm not all that good with patches.

Also it might be that this patch is not suitable because of some other factors of which I'm not aware - I don't have a deep understanding of how context works.

Still, if someone can review this and advise if it is a sensible solution or whether a better one can be proposed, I'd be grateful.

Rather than making a bean specific solution, a better approach may be to make the check something along the lines of: if (context_reaction_block_empty($block) ) {

With a new function that does:

/**
* Return true if all display #properties are empty
* no non #keys are found in the content of the block
*/
function context_reaction_block_empty($block) {
$display_properties = array('#markup', '#prefix', '#suffix');
foreach ($block->content as $key => $val) {
if($val && (strpos($key, '#') === FALSE || in_array($display_properties, $key)) {
return TRUE:
}
}
return FALSE;
}

Some research would be needed to determine the exact correct implementation of the empty check but this should allow it to be a little more general.

This is a specific case of http://drupal.org/node/751062 and would be best fixed with a generic patch there