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Assign default value to object if value is undefined


I'm fetching data from an API, some fields are not required therefore undefined in the response object

I would like to assign a default empty value like null '' [] to my object parameters if said fields are undefined in the response, so far here's what I have (I have more more fields to fetch but stopped at 5 for this example)

await axios.get('https://myurl.com').then( async (response) => {
    await Promise.all(response.data.map(async (commerce) => {

      let options = {
        // BASE INFO
        field1: commerce.field1[0].value,
        field2 : commerce.field2[0].value,
        field3 : commerce.field3[0].value,
        field4 : commerce.field4[0].value,
        field5 : commerce.field5[0].value,
      }

      const default_options = {
        // BASE INFO
        field1: null,
        field2 : '',
        field3 : '',
        field4 : [],
        field5 : null,
      }

      const commerceObj = Object.assign({}, default_options, options)
    }));

  });

I get an error if a field has no value for instance commerce.field2[0] is undefined because the API response doesn't include it, what I'm looking for would be an efficient way to do something like

field2 : if(commerce.field2[0].value) { commerce.field2[0].value } else {''}

Since I have a lot of fields I don't really wish to do have a lot of if in my code the only thing I could find that could help me is Object.assign() but it didn't help much


Solution

  • You can use Conditional (ternary) operator.

    Syntax: condition ? exprIfTrue : exprIfFalse

      let options = {
        field1: commerce.field1[0].value ? commerce.field1[0].value : '',
        ...
      }