Hi E. Wray,

1. basex-node results are always strings but you can use JSON.parse on that string, if that is appropriate because for example of the serialization used.

See [1],[2] for examples

2. Do you mean you would like query.bind [3] to automatically convert "undefined" to ()?

If so, or indeed if you mean something different, best to create an issue in the basex-node project on github.

Regards

/Andy

[0] https://github.com/apb2006/basex-node
[1] https://github.com/apb2006/basex-node/blob/master/examples/json.js
[2] https://github.com/apb2006/basex-node/blob/master/examples/json2.js

[3] https://github.com/apb2006/basex-node/blob/master/docs/commands.md#the-query-object

On 15 November 2017 at 16:17, E. Wray Johnson <wray.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:

Andy,

I am pelase that JSON result objects are mapped to JavaScript objects. Are undefined values handled (e.g. XQuery () vs JavaScript undefined)?
I am using basex-node and having trouble binding objects in a query. I would like to have the object result in an XQUERY map. It would be nice if undefined values as defined above are handled as well. For now I have to do something like this'$x := map ' +JSON.stringify(obj).replace('undefined', '()').
I hope this make sense.