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New Contributor III

9 years ago

hasOwnProperty() and fields containing special characters

Given the object: { "Errors" : { "$.Field_1" : "Too many characters.", "Field_2" : "Too few characters." } } The following expressions yield di...

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Contributor III

9 years ago

Getting a little creative, I got this to work for me:

JSON.stringify($Errors).contains(‘“$.Field_1”:’)

nganapathiraju
Former Employee
9 years ago
$Errors.hasOwnProperty(“[‘$.field1’]”) gives the correct answer.

Thanks & Regards,
Naveen
- tstack
  Former Employee
  9 years ago
  
  nganapathiraju:
  
  $Errors.hasOwnProperty(“[‘$.field1’]”) gives the correct answer.
  
  The bug will eventually be fixed, so I would prefer people not try to workaround it like this since it will begin failing after the fix.