I'm trying to parse some JSON in Grails using the grails.converters.JSON library. I have a field which will contain either a string, or a null value. When I parse the JSON and get the field, the null values come back as a JSONObject.NULL type. This is not good when checking != null as JSONObject.NULL is evaluated as non-null (not good for null checks)
def obj = JSON.parse('{"date1":null,"date2":"2011-06-26T05:00:00Z"}')
def date1 = obj.date1
if (date1)
parse(date1) // parse error occurs here because date1 evaluates true in the if because it is JSONObject.NULL
Is there an easy way to get the parse to parse a real null value so that I don't have to check if the object is a JSONObject.NULL.
I tried the suggestion here to use .toString(), but it ended up returning the string value 'null' instead of actual null for a JSONObject.NULL value.
解决方案
Ian Roberts mentions a nice trick to make a null check possible:
JSONObject.NULL.metaClass.asBoolean = {-> false}