Merge pull request #2206 from payloadcms/fix/2189-empty-json

fix: allows empty objects to be retained in db

test/fields/int.spec.ts

@@ -524,6 +524,19 @@ describe('Fields', () => {
         },
       })).rejects.toThrow('The following field is invalid: json');
     });
+
+    it('should save empty json objects', async () => {
+      const createdJSON = await payload.create({
+        collection: 'json-fields',
+        data: {
+          json: {
+            state: {},
+          },
+        },
+      });
+
+      expect(createdJSON.json.state).toBeDefined();
+    });
   });
 
   describe('richText', () => {

test/globals/config.ts

@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ export default buildConfig({
       slug,
       access,
       fields: [
+        {
+          name: 'json',
+          type: 'json',
+        },
         {
           name: 'title',
           type: 'text',

test/globals/int.spec.ts

@@ -60,6 +60,19 @@ describe('globals', () => {
   });
 
   describe('local', () => {
+    it('should save empty json objects', async () => {
+      const createdJSON = await payload.updateGlobal({
+        slug,
+        data: {
+          json: {
+            state: {},
+          },
+        },
+      });
+
+      expect(createdJSON.json.state).toBeDefined();
+    });
+
     it('should create', async () => {
       const data = {
         title: 'title',