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Handling potential null values when combining properties in API endpoint

3 replies
Last updated: Feb 23, 2023
How do you handle potential null values that you may want to combine into one property. For example:
  "address": address.line1 + '\\n'
    +address.line2 + '\\n'
    +address.city + ', MA '
    +address.zip,
If address.line2 is null then the whole address returns null. Is there a way to do that part conditionally that there is data in line2?
Feb 23, 2023, 5:11 PM
You can a combination of
coalesce()
,
select()
, and
array::join()
, etc. Generally I would recommend doing this of string manipulation with JavaScript, though.
Feb 23, 2023, 5:33 PM
Thanks
user L
. I know I'm doing something a little weird. Storytime:I had an old homemade api endpoint that a vendor was using to pull data into a mobile app. We are cutting over to a new software system and website, and I'm trying to coordinate it all. The mobile app vendor didn't have time to make the change to using our sanity api with new data structure, so I'm using groq to reshape the data to look like the old (poorly designed by me) api
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Feb 23, 2023, 7:56 PM
coalesce() is doing the job
Feb 23, 2023, 7:58 PM

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