Fill NULL or Empty directive
The FILL-NULL-OR-EMPTY
directive fills column value with a fixed value if it is either null
or empty ("").
Syntax
fill-null-or-empty :column 'value'
If the
column
does not exist, then the directive will fail.The
value
can only be of type string.
Usage Notes
The FILL-NULL-OR-EMPTY
directive fills the column value with the value
if the column value is null
or empty (an empty string, "").
The value
must be a string and cannot be an empty string value.
When the object in the record is a JSON object and it is null
, the directive checks that it is also applied to those records.
Example
Using this record as an example:
{
"id": 1,
"fname": "root",
"mname": null,
"lname": "joltie",
"address": ""
}
Applying these directives:
fill-null-or-empty :mname 'NA'
fill-null-or-empty :address 'No address specified'
results in this record:
Created in 2020 by Google Inc.