From cb0e5014ce9698561094307d87868718ecbd27cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Collin Beczak <ctbeczak08@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 07:46:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add handling for JsNull case in Utils.scala to return empty
 string

---
 app/org/maproulette/utils/Utils.scala | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/app/org/maproulette/utils/Utils.scala b/app/org/maproulette/utils/Utils.scala
index 56deea0fd..e9e053758 100644
--- a/app/org/maproulette/utils/Utils.scala
+++ b/app/org/maproulette/utils/Utils.scala
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ object Utils extends DefaultWrites {
           } else {
             try {
               val strValue = kv._2 match {
+                case JsNull      => ""
                 case v: JsNumber => v.toString
                 case v: JsArray  => v.as[Seq[String]].mkString(",")
                 case v           => v.as[String]