fill-null-or-empty.md

Fill Null or Empty

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> <fixed-value>

• If the <column> does not exist, then the directive will fail.
• The <fixed-value> can only be of type string.

Usage Notes

The FILL-NULL-OR-EMPTY directive fills the column value with the <fixed-value> if the column value is null or empty (an empty string, "").

The <fixed-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

would result in this record:

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