Couchbase Essentials

Null or missing properties

Throughout our exercises in writing map functions, it was common to test properties before attempting to emit them to a view index. N1QL also provides the capability to check for null or missing properties.

In JavaScript map functions, to check whether a property contains a null value, you simply compare the value to null:

if (doc.property == null) // do something

Missing properties are not null; rather, they don't exist. In order to check for a missing property with JavaScript, you can compare it to the undefined literal string or simply apply the bang (!) operator to your check. Using the latter test will allow for both a null check and a missing check:

if (! doc.property) // do something

There are two separate operators ...