luci-lib-json: ignore null keys to allow encoding empty objects

[project/luci.git] / libs / luci-lib-json / luasrc / json.lua

diff --git a/libs/luci-lib-json/luasrc/json.lua b/libs/luci-lib-json/luasrc/json.lua
index 416b25f..f7b57f9 100644 (file)
--- a/libs/luci-lib-json/luasrc/json.lua
+++ b/libs/luci-lib-json/luasrc/json.lua
@@ -149,11 +149,13 @@ function Encoder.parse_iter(self, obj)
                local first = true
 
                for key, entry in pairs(obj) do
-                       first = first or self:put(",")
-                       first = first and false
-                       self:parse_string(tostring(key))
-                       self:put(":")
-                       self:dispatch(entry)
+                       if key ~= null then
+                               first = first or self:put(",")
+                               first = first and false
+                               self:parse_string(tostring(key))
+                               self:put(":")
+                               self:dispatch(entry)
+                       end
                end
 
                self:put("}")