Removing properties from a ZENProxyObject before it is returned by a REST service

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Chris Stewart · Mar 29, 2016

Hi

I have been experimenting with the creation of a set of REST services for an app. The basic GET operation is set to create a %ZEN.proxyObject instance, and then set an instance of a Persistant class as a property, which gives me all of the values I want to return. However, it also gives me some values that I don't want to return over REST (because they are both private, and large registered objects which will bog down performance)

How do I remove these values from the ZENproxyObject? I can only see a full clear() in the documentation, but nothing which can remove individual elements

Thanks

Chris

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Alexander Koblov · Mar 29, 2016

By default %ToJSON method prints empty properties.

If you pass pFormat without "e" flags (that is passed by default), then empty properties are skipped:

USER>set p = ##class(%ZEN.proxyObject).%New()

USER>set p.a = 1

USER>set p.b = 2

USER>do p.%ToJSON()
{
        "a":1,
        "b":2
}
USER>set p.b = ""

USER>do p.%ToJSON()
{
        "a":1,
        "b":""
}
USER>do p.%ToJSON(,"alotw")
{
        "a":1
}

I encourage you to use Caché 2016.1 with native JSON support. Don't start with %ZEN.proxyObject.
See great article by Stefan Wittman about JSON support in 2016.1:
https://community.intersystems.com/post/introducing-new-json-capabilitie...

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score 4 · Answer 1 · 2016-03-30T05:08:26-04:00

There is also this way:

set p = ##class(%ZEN.proxyObject).%New()
set p.a = 1
set p.b = 2
do p.%ToJSON()
kill p.%data("b")
do p.%ToJSON()

kill p.%data("b") would completely remove b property. But better use Caché 2016.1 with native JSON support.

score 1 · Answer 2 · 2016-03-30T09:53:45-04:00

Chris Stewart · Mar 30, 2016

Fantastic. Thank you both for your help. I will migrate over to using %Object instead

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