Disclude blank values from Syphon.serialize

[marionettejs]

Disclude blank values from Syphon.serialize

[jamiebuilds]

Hi @SimpleAsCouldBe, sorry this wasn't addressed sooner.

I'm tempted to say that this is something that belongs outside of Syphon, but could you provide me a use case for it?

[SimplGy]

It's been a long time since I thought about it. I think this applies to any form that the user might fill in partially, depending on needs. So like a profile screen or similar. If Syphon let me just ignore blank fields instead of including blank values it'd be a better/smaller JSON package.

[rhubarbselleven]

What should Syphon do with blank fields?

If they're included, then when the caller performs a model.set they're potentially going to wipe out some other fields that they're wanting to hold onto. However perhaps that's the desired behaviour.

My thought here is to expand the serialize API to allow for conditional blank key inclusion.

Thoughts?