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feat(grouping): Add option groupingNullLabel, to group null and undef…
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…ined values together.

 Fixes #3271
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ndudenhoeffer committed May 6, 2015
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* <br/>Defaults to true
*/
gridOptions.groupingShowCounts = gridOptions.groupingShowCounts !== false;

/**
* @ngdoc object
* @name groupingNullLabel
* @propertyOf ui.grid.grouping.api:GridOptions
* @description The string to use for the grouping header row label on rows which contain a null or undefined value in the grouped column.
* <br/>Defaults to "Null"
*/
gridOptions.groupingNullLabel = gridOptions.groupingNullLabel || 'Null';
},


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var updateProcessingState = function( groupFieldState, stateIndex ) {
var fieldValue = grid.getCellValue(row, groupFieldState.col);
if ( typeof(fieldValue) === 'undefined' || fieldValue === null ){
return;
fieldValue = grid.options.groupingNullLabel;
}

if ( !row.visible ){
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// TODO: can't just use entity like this, have to use get cell value, need col for that
var newValue = grid.getCellValue(renderableRows[rowIndex], col);
if ( typeof(newValue) === 'undefined' || newValue === null ) {
newValue = grid.options.groupingNullLabel;
}
headerRow.entity[fieldName] = newValue;
headerRow.groupLevel = stateIndex;
headerRow.groupHeader = true;
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Why are we conflating undefined and null as being equal to one another, when they're not?

null is a value, whereas typeof(x) === 'undefined' means there is no value.

As a workaround, I have to walk all my datasets and replace null values with the string "null" before I hand off the data to ui-grid, so users can distinguish a cell value of null from a cell with no value (undefined). Bummer.

Is my workaround required, or is there another way to instruct ui-grid to disambiguate null values from fields with no values?

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