Hi, Node-RED provides a nice editor widget for selecting and defining for example payload types as strings, numbers, JSON (with editor) etc. In case you want to do it yourself, here a little example node. js file module.exports = function(RED) { "use strict"; function simpleChange(config) {…

Pretty late here but I just ran up against the exact same problem and figured it out. You need to create a default for the "type" field as well as the value field in your defaults defined in the html file. So in @cinhcet 's example above it's this bit that's important: changeValue: { value: true,…

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cinhcet 25 January 2019 19:15 4

if you only want json, you can set types to ['json']and remove typeField: $("#node-input-changeValueType") and also the hidden input.

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