removed empty object arrays, WIP on bug 8452

src/commands/get.ts

 import { DecodeFn, EncodeFn } from "../types";
 import * as util from "./util";
 
-const isEmpty = (obj: any): boolean =>
-  obj && typeof obj === "object" && Object.keys(obj).length === 0;
-
 const decode: DecodeFn = (msg, decodeOptions) => {
   const resolvedPathResultsArr = util.searchAll(msg, "resolvedPathResults");
   if (decodeOptions?.raw) return [resolvedPathResultsArr];
@@ -34,7 +31,18 @@ const decode: DecodeFn = (msg, decodeOptions) => {
     const unflattened = util.convertToNestedObject(resolvedPathResultsArr);
     const unwrapped = util.fullyUnwrapObject(unflattened, shouldBeArray);
 
-    return [isEmpty(unwrapped) ? [] : unwrapped];
+    console.log({ 
+      resolvedPathResultsArr,
+      requestedPath,
+      pathIncludesSearch,
+      pathSplit,
+      hasMultipleIndexes,
+      shouldBeArray,
+      unflattened,
+      unwrapped
+     })
+
+    return [util.isEmpty(unwrapped) ? [] : unwrapped];
   }
   return [null];
 };

src/commands/util.ts

@@ -136,16 +136,23 @@ export const unwrapArray = (arr: any) =>
 const isObject = (val: any): boolean =>
   typeof val === "object" && val !== null && !Array.isArray(val);
 
+export const isEmpty = (obj: any): boolean =>
+  obj !== null &&
+  obj !== undefined &&
+  obj &&
+  typeof obj === "object" &&
+  Object.keys(obj).length === 0;
+
 export const fullyUnwrapObject = (obj: any, shouldBeArray: boolean) => {
   if (isObject(obj) && Object.keys(obj).length === 1)
     return fullyUnwrapObject(Object.values(obj)[0], shouldBeArray);
   const isArray = Array.isArray(obj);
   if (shouldBeArray)
-    if (isArray) return obj;
-    else return [obj];
+    if (isArray) return obj.filter((v) => !isEmpty(v));
+    else return isEmpty(obj) ? [] : [obj];
   else if (isArray)
     return fullyUnwrapObject(
-      obj.find((v) => v !== null && v !== undefined),
+      obj.find((v) => !isEmpty(v)),
       shouldBeArray
     );
   else return obj;