Skip to content

Overwriting a value with an undefined/null field will not change the old value #2318

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
muja opened this issue Mar 10, 2025 · 0 comments
Open
Labels

Comments

@muja
Copy link

muja commented Mar 10, 2025

Describe the bug

When overwriting an object's value with undefined, it will leave the old value intact

❯ yq -n '.foo = "abc" | .foo = .bar'

Actual behavior

foo: abc

Expected behavior

foo: null

Additional context

❯ jq -n '.foo = "abc" | .foo = .bar'
{
  "foo": null
}

❯ yq -n '.foo = "abc" | .foo = null'
foo: null
@muja muja changed the title When overwriting an object's value with an undefined/null field, it will leave the old value intact Overwriting a value with an undefined/null field will not change the old value May 6, 2025
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

1 participant