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SAS® Visual Investigator
2026.09
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  • Welcome to SAS Visual Investigator
  • What’s New in SAS Visual Investigator
  • SAS Visual Investigator Getting Started
  • SAS Visual Investigator: User’s Guide
  • SAS Visual Investigator: Administrator’s Guide
  • SAS Visual Investigator: Administering Flows and Scenarios
  • SAS Visual Investigator Accessibility Features
  • SAS Visual Investigator: Supplemental Documentation
    • SAS Visual Investigator: Data Dictionary
    • SAS Visual Investigator: Data REST API Reference
      • Using This Book
      • Introduction
        • Getting Started
        • API Considerations
          • SAS Visual Investigator API Documentation
          • Obtaining an Authorization Token
          • CSRF Tokens
          • Properties with Null Values
      • Managing Data Using APIs
      • Recipes for Metadata Reconstruction
  • Licensing
  • Related Documentation
SAS Visual Investigator: Data REST API Reference
 

Properties with Null Values

When serializing data to JSON, the Data Hub serialization layer omits properties with null values. This conserves response size. Clients should depend on metadata endpoints to determine all the properties that might be present in a data object.

Last updated: September 7, 2026
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