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'

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.

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:

{
  "id": 1,
  "fname": "root",
  "mname": "NA",
  "lname": "joltie",
  "address": "No address specified"
}