Question

{
MESSAGE = LoginWelcomeBackMessage;
SUCCESS = 1;
USER =     {
    AcceptAllFriendRequests = 0;
    CreateDate = "June, 07 2010 00:00:00";
    DayOfBirth = "April, 24 1974 00:00:00";
    UserName = "Erik Madsen";
};
}

My CFC defines all the columns in my database table, but when a column is NULL, the field isn’t returned as a property in the JSON? The example above should have PersonalInfo = “”; Is there a way to force it to return an empty string?

Answer 1

Simply leaving the property out is probably closer to null than an empty string in most circumstances. if you want an empty string you should return an empty string. how a null value is treated depends on your serializer.

In javascript, the official implementation handles it quite fine:

var a = { b: null };
console.log( JSON.stringify(a) ); // logs '{"b":null}'