Show empty JSON properties, as 'null' for all types

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This is an amendment of #160 . Setting empty properties in outputs and providers to null were missing in the original PR which was added here. Also This PR makes sure that if the property is empty it sets it to null rather than "" (empty string)

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Related to #158

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