[fpc-pascal] Null values with JSON RPC

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 7 Aug 2020, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:

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>> On Aug 7, 2020, at 7:58 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> By itself, fpJSON of course allows null values.
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>> What are you using as a serialization technologgy ?
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> I didn't write the serialization layer and this is my first time using the FPCs RTTI system for this purpose. Having said that I think it's coming from TJSONStreamer or TJSONParser as it's trying to decode to a published property like:
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>    property rootUri: string read fRootUri write fRootUri;
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> It doesn't seem to know how to translate null to "string", which makes sense I guess but not getting a hard error would be nice simply because it was difficult to understand where it came from and what went wrong. Anybody else trying to integrate into a client will come across this also and be confused.
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> This is basically like a nullable types problem right? I need to modify the FPC serialization code or use a nullable string type instead of AnsiString.

An option to allow nulls to be detected and handles would of course be a nice
addition.

For the time being, you can just set jdoIgnorePropertyErrors on the destreamer options.

Michael.