Clear/delete field using Local API

allannnc

4 months ago

8

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

• 

  jarrod_not_jared

  Payload Team

  4 months 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.

• 

  jesschow

  Payload Team

  2 months ago

  Hey @allannnc did this get resolved?

• 

  allannnc

  2 months ago

  Hey @jesschow not afaik

  
  

  
  

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

• 

  jesschow

  Payload Team

  2 months ago

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

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues
• 

  allannnc

  2 months ago

  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

  

  

  
• 

  jesschow

  Payload Team

  2 months ago

  @allannnc bug report please 👍

• 

  allannnc

  2 months ago

  raised!

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/3013
• 

  jesschow

  Payload Team

  2 months ago

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