How can I enable "is/is not null" searching for my custom field?

[Deleted user]

Not sure if this is possible, but I have developed a custom field plugin of type TEXT (ie. it uses the "~" operator for search), and I was wondering if there was a way to enable JQL support for searching on null values within the field?

I know that Jira will automatically hide custom fields on the Issue Page when the field value is null, so I've set that as my custom field's default value in order to take advantage of this behavior. However, searches in JQL for "cf[10000] is null" (or "cf[10000] ~ null", or even "cf[10000] is EMPTY") return no results.

Is there something else I should be doing to allow this behavior? 

[Burak Kocak]

You should add search template to your plugin.