From 218a0f1f0e356dfb7342ff67d6fbcd767d1de839 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Burnett <18027+burnettk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 07:51:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] do not convert null to a string when clearing out a typeahead
 field w/ burnettk (#373)

Co-authored-by: jasquat <jasquat@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .../custom_widgets/TypeaheadWidget/TypeaheadWidget.tsx | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/rjsf/custom_widgets/TypeaheadWidget/TypeaheadWidget.tsx b/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/rjsf/custom_widgets/TypeaheadWidget/TypeaheadWidget.tsx
index 7ee9e073b..9931ddf1d 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/rjsf/custom_widgets/TypeaheadWidget/TypeaheadWidget.tsx
+++ b/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/rjsf/custom_widgets/TypeaheadWidget/TypeaheadWidget.tsx
@@ -114,7 +114,15 @@ export default function TypeaheadWidget({
       onInputChange={typeaheadSearch}
       onChange={(event: any) => {
         setSelectedItem(event.selectedItem);
-        onChange(JSON.stringify(event.selectedItem));
+        let valueToUse = event.selectedItem;
+
+        // if the value is not truthy then do not stringify it
+        // otherwise things like null becomes "null"
+        if (valueToUse) {
+          valueToUse = JSON.stringify(valueToUse);
+        }
+
+        onChange(valueToUse);
       }}
       id={id}
       items={items}