Clear/delete field using Local API

allannnc2 years ago

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const updatedDoc = await req.payload.update({
  collectionName: 'foo',
  id: 'someId',
  data: {
    nonRequiredStringFieldToClear: undefined
  }
});

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  jarrod_not_jared

  2 years ago

  Interesting, yeah I think null would be the preferred value to save. Undefined will not work because we merge existing data with incoming data.

  
  
  

  But like you said the type is not allowing null, which seems like it should.

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  jessrynkarlast year

  Hey

  @946299884070375424

  did this get resolved?

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  allannnclast year

  Hey

  @854377910689202256

  not afaik

  
  
  

  Stuck with the workaround of passing "empty" non-null values

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  jessrynkarlast year

  @946299884070375424

  hmm not ideal... could you throw this information into an issue over on GitHub for us?

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues
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  allannnclast year

  will reproduce and create this issue if needed!

  
  
  

  would this be a bug report or feature request?

  
  
  

  for reference: this does not clear the

  code

  field, acts as if

  code

  was never passed in

  data
  
  

  and this is not allowed:

  
  
  

  so, this is the workaround
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  jessrynkarlast year

  @946299884070375424

  bug report please 👍

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  allannnclast year

  raised!

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/3013
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  jessrynkarlast year

  @946299884070375424

  awesome thank you, we'll get this resolved soon 👍