Hide null values in output from JSON.stringify()

the_darkside picture the_darkside · Dec 13, 2016 · Viewed 23.9k times · Source

In my code, all of the info from a Postgres table row are stringified when a specific rowID is selected.

var jsonRes = result.message.rows;

document.getElementById('panel').innerHTML = '<pre>' + JSON.stringify(jsonRes[0], null, "\t") + '</pre>'

The result looks something like this:

{
  "ogc_fid": 143667,
  "relkey": 288007,
  "acct": "000487000A0010000",
  "recacs": "12.5495 AC",
  "shape_star": 547131.567383,
  "shape_stle": 3518.469618,
  "objectid": 307755,
  "zone_dist": "MU-3",
  "pd_num": null,
  "council_da": null,
  "long_zone_": "MU-3",
  "globalid": "{D5B006E8-716A-421F-A78A-2D71ED1DC118}",
  "ord_num": null,
  "notes": null,
  "res_num": null,
  "effectived": 1345766400000,
  "shape.star": 629707.919922,
  "shape.stle": 3917.657332,
  "case_numbe": null,
  "common_nam": null,
  "districtus": null 
}

I am new to JS and would like to know if there might be a simple way to completely exclude the columns containing null values - a function that roughly looks like this:

function hide(jsonObject) {
    if (property === null) {
      hide property
  } else {
      return str
  }
}

So that in the end, the object in the panel looks like this:

{
  "ogc_fid": 143667,
  "relkey": 288007,
  "acct": "000487000A0010000",
  "recacs": "12.5495 AC",
  "shape_star": 547131.567383,
  "shape_stle": 3518.469618,
  "objectid": 307755,
  "zone_dist": "MU-3",
  "long_zone_": "MU-3",
  "globalid": "{D5B006E8-716A-421F-A78A-2D71ED1DC118}",
  "effectived": 1345766400000,
  "shape.star": 629707.919922,
  "shape.stle": 3917.657332
}

Answer

mcrunix picture mcrunix · Dec 13, 2016

You can do something like this:

let x = {
  'x1':0,
  'x2':null,
  'x3':"xyz", 
  'x4': null
}

console.log(JSON.stringify(x, (key, value) => {
  if (value !== null) return value
}))