I am using Europeana API to populate my website with certain photographs. I have decided which metadata I would like to retrieve but I ran into a problem when I realized that not all the photographs have the metadata that I want and that leads to errors and undefined.
How can I condition it so that e.g. edmPlaceLabel is shown only if it exists for the photo that is being retrieved? If it doesn't exist, simply skip it and move on.
data.items.forEach((item) => {
const output = document.querySelector('#output');
const title = item.title,
year = item.year,
provider = item.provider,
dataProvider = item.dataProvider,
LabelLangAware = item.edmConceptPrefLabelLangAware,
edmPlaceLabel = item.edmPlaceLabel[0],
edmPlaceLabelLangAware = item.edmPlaceLabelLangAware.hr[0],
edmTimespanLabel = item.edmTimespanLabel[30].def,
edmTimespanLabelLangAware = item.edmTimespanLabelLangAware.hr,
europeanaCollectionName = item.europeanaCollectionName[0],
link = item.guid,
thumbnail = item.edmPreview[0],
edmIsShownBy = item.edmIsShownBy;
output.innerHTML += `${index}
<a href="${link}">Link: ${title}</a>
<br>
<h4>${title}</h4>
<p>Godina: ${year}</p>
<p>Izvor: ${dataProvider}</p>
<p>Opis: ${LabelLangAware}</p>
<p>Mjesto: ${edmPlaceLabel}</p>
<p>Mjesto: ${edmPlaceLabelLangAware}</p>
<p>${edmTimespanLabel}</p>
<p>${edmTimespanLabelLangAware}</p>
<p>Provider: ${provider}</p>
<p>Kolekcija: ${europeanaCollectionName}</p>
<br>
<img src="${thumbnail}" alt="${title}">
<br>
<p>Link na izvor: ${edmIsShownBy}</p>
`;
});
Try using ternary expression
Example:
var val = obj ? obj.prop : '';
is the same as:
var val = null;
if (obj) {
val = obj.prop;
} else {
val = ''
}
Can also be used with string variables:
`hello ${val ? val : ''} world`