[Google Maps Reviews API] Return an empty string instead of "\"\"" when the user.name or snippet fields are empty

[martin-serpapi]

A customer requested that we return an empty string instead of a "\"\"" value when the user.name or snippet fields are empty:

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[schaferyan]

Thanks @martin-serpapi. My guess is we will want to omit this field when it's empty, rather than provide an empty string, as that's more in line with our usual practice for fields not present in the response.

[marm123]

I think it might be a valid concern on the one hand, but on the other hand, we're scraping the data as is, and since it's the name is posted as "" on Google, should we alter that on our end? Should we also consider other cases where the other fields might seem odd on Google's side?

My initial thought is that since Google provides the information this way, we should also scrape it as is and leave the data manipulation to our users. I might be wrong, though. What do you think, @martin-serpapi @schaferyan?

[schaferyan]

@marm123 from looking at the screenshot, I initially thought there was just no username for the review. But looking more closely, I see that Google actually displays those quotation marks. While it seems like odd behavior and potentially a bug on Google's side, I agree that if that's what Google displays, it's also what we should return.