Make it possible to ignore nulls

[francisdb]

I would like to allow this:

{
  name: "test"
  age: null
}

to be equal to

{
  name: "test"
}

[jmayday]

When working with some specific class it's possible to annotate it with @JsonInclude(Include.NON_EMPTY) or also prepare own ObjectMapper implementation with Serializers which redefine isEmpty() method to apply even more sophisticated logic. Details described here FasterXML/jackson-databind#730

But it's tricky for me as well to ignore nulls when dealing with raw jsons (then Include strategy nor custom ObjectMapper doesn't do the job).

[carterpage]

If the second one is the expected value, and you use LENIENT or STRICT_ORDER modes, then this will pass. However, if the first one (with age:null) is the expected value, it will fail because technically speaking, the field actually exists in the JSON tree. Therefore, this is WAI. You can try jmayday's advice, or write a scrubber utility to remove null fields before passing it to JSONAssert.