Couple of recent changes

[Jason_Mathison]

The change for ignoring null input values has gone live:

Data Actions will ignore null input values

Description Data Action execution and test requests will ignore null input values. This is the current behavior experienced in the UI test mode and when executing and testing data actions through the Public API. This will eliminate data action execution failures due to inconsistent null value behavior between different architect flow types. Change Category API Change Context Customers have experienced difficult-to-troubleshoot data action errors in their flows because some types of Architect …

There is now a $esc.jsonDecode() method to allow you to unescape a json escaped string into json without having to do a bunch of string search and replacements.

Velocity macros for data actions - Genesys Cloud Resource Center

$esc.jsonEncode() was added to have the same sort of name as $esc.jsonDecode(). This velocity macro is identical to the existing $esc.jsonString(), with no plans to remove the old macro.

Velocity macros for data actions - Genesys Cloud Resource Center

--Jason