From 87f32ac6875fdba50225b94b20d2b9c7589ed89f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: burnettk <burnettk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 08:19:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "set undefined values to null rjsf form data w/
 burnettk (#336)"

This reverts commit cca9b147f6648b2aa0717c7859ce88056640f4a8.
---
 spiffworkflow-frontend/src/helpers.test.tsx   | 36 -------------------
 spiffworkflow-frontend/src/helpers.tsx        | 18 ----------
 .../src/routes/TaskShow.tsx                   | 11 +++---
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/helpers.test.tsx b/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/helpers.test.tsx
index be2072502..5a7889a65 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/helpers.test.tsx
+++ b/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/helpers.test.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import {
   isInteger,
   slugifyString,
   underscorizeString,
-  recursivelyNullifyUndefinedValuesInPlace,
 } from './helpers';
 
 test('it can slugify a string', () => {
@@ -30,38 +29,3 @@ test('it can validate numeric values', () => {
   expect(isInteger('1 2')).toEqual(false);
   expect(isInteger(2)).toEqual(true);
 });
-
-test('it can replace undefined values in object with null', () => {
-  const sampleData = {
-    talentType: 'foo',
-    rating: 'bar',
-    contacts: {
-      gmeets: undefined,
-      zoom: undefined,
-      phone: 'baz',
-      awesome: false,
-      info: '',
-    },
-    items: [
-      undefined,
-      {
-        contacts: {
-          gmeets: undefined,
-          zoom: undefined,
-          phone: 'baz',
-        },
-      },
-      'HEY',
-    ],
-    undefined,
-  };
-
-  expect((sampleData.items[1] as any).contacts.zoom).toEqual(undefined);
-
-  const result = recursivelyNullifyUndefinedValuesInPlace(sampleData);
-  expect(result).toEqual(sampleData);
-  expect(result.items[1].contacts.zoom).toEqual(null);
-  expect(result.items[2]).toEqual('HEY');
-  expect(result.contacts.awesome).toEqual(false);
-  expect(result.contacts.info).toEqual('');
-});
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/helpers.tsx b/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/helpers.tsx
index 1a148d3c9..c816302c6 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/helpers.tsx
+++ b/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/helpers.tsx
@@ -26,24 +26,6 @@ export const underscorizeString = (inputString: string) => {
   return slugifyString(inputString).replace(/-/g, '_');
 };
 
-export const recursivelyNullifyUndefinedValuesInPlace = (obj: any) => {
-  if (obj === null || obj === undefined) {
-    return null;
-  }
-  if (Array.isArray(obj)) {
-    obj.forEach((value: any, index: number) => {
-      // eslint-disable-next-line no-param-reassign
-      obj[index] = recursivelyNullifyUndefinedValuesInPlace(value);
-    });
-  } else if (typeof obj === 'object') {
-    Object.entries(obj).forEach(([key, value]) => {
-      // eslint-disable-next-line no-param-reassign
-      obj[key] = recursivelyNullifyUndefinedValuesInPlace(value);
-    });
-  }
-  return obj;
-};
-
 export const selectKeysFromSearchParams = (obj: any, keys: string[]) => {
   const newSearchParams: { [key: string]: string } = {};
   keys.forEach((key: string) => {
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/routes/TaskShow.tsx b/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/routes/TaskShow.tsx
index d9e670f76..75ffa9bfe 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/routes/TaskShow.tsx
+++ b/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/routes/TaskShow.tsx
@@ -15,10 +15,7 @@ import {
 import { Form } from '../rjsf/carbon_theme';
 import HttpService from '../services/HttpService';
 import useAPIError from '../hooks/UseApiError';
-import {
-  modifyProcessIdentifierForPathParam,
-  recursivelyNullifyUndefinedValuesInPlace,
-} from '../helpers';
+import { modifyProcessIdentifierForPathParam } from '../helpers';
 import { EventDefinition, Task } from '../interfaces';
 import ProcessBreadcrumb from '../components/ProcessBreadcrumb';
 import InstructionsForEndUser from '../components/InstructionsForEndUser';
@@ -122,9 +119,9 @@ export default function TaskShow() {
     delete dataToSubmit.isManualTask;
 
     // NOTE: rjsf sets blanks values to undefined and JSON.stringify removes keys with undefined values
-    // so we convert undefined values to null recursively so that we can unset values in form fields
-    recursivelyNullifyUndefinedValuesInPlace(dataToSubmit);
-
+    // so there is no way to clear out a field that previously had a value.
+    // To resolve this, we could potentially go through the object that we are posting (either in here or in
+    // HttpService) and translate all undefined values to null.
     HttpService.makeCallToBackend({
       path: `/tasks/${params.process_instance_id}/${params.task_id}${queryParams}`,
       successCallback: processSubmitResult,