Meme transcription: Panel 1. Two images of JSON, one is the empty object, one is an object in which the key name
maps to the value null
. Caption: “Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture”
Panel 2. The Java backend dev answers, “They’re the same picture.”
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I (think, at least) the point they’re making is that unless the API contract specifically differentiates between “present and null” and “absent” then there is no difference. (Specifically for field values.)
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