How to select a subset of properties in a list of objects

I will try to get some consulting. Frankly, I feel this is a weakness of Backendless that you may want to address with some kind of new feature. Having a lot of experience with other “codeless” tools, transforming JSON has always been easy for me, whereas it appears rather complicated here.

I was able to find the solution to this. For anyone looking to dig into a JSON Path using Codeless, here goes:

The Problem: My external API gives an array of arrays like this:

Solution: Transforming it into this:

Here’s what I did:

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ISometimes the “phones” and “emails” logic here

will work fine, and other times it will give the error:

{
“code”: 0,
“message”: “Cannot read property ‘email’ of undefined”
}

What is the standard way to check for null, undefined, or blank variables in Codeless?

This is what I am doing:

Hi @Andreas_Marinopoulos,

To check for null, you can do this:
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Regards,
Mark

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