Clearing hasMany text field with update

[lilac quail]

Payload appears to ignore all possible instances of 'empty' when updating by id.
This makes it impossible to ever clear a hasMany text field once assigned.

{
  name: 'name',
  type: 'text',
  hasMany: true,
},

const results = await req.payload.update({
  req,
  collection: 'items',
  id: itemId,
  data: {
    name: [], // ignored
    name: null, // ignored
    name: undefined, // ignored
    name: new Array(), // ignored
    name: new Array<string>(), // ignored
    name: [''], // clears array but leaves single empty value
  },
});

[spark nymph]

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Help is on the way! To mark it as solved, use the /solve command. In the meantime, here are some existing threads that may help you:

Documentation:

• Text Field - Config Options
• Rich Text Field
• Relationship Field - How the data is saved

Community-Help:

• Conditional data stored in Mongo
• Clearing a relationship field
• guidance for payload.update() when updating Relationship field

[lilac quail]

Seems the exact issue was reported for relationships: https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/3513
and promptly fixed: https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/3515

But only for relationships, and not all hasMany fields

[round juniper]

I hope this will get a fix soon. This is something you'd expect to be tested 😄