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.”

  • bleistift2OPEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I do this constantly. undefined: not retrieved yet. null: Error when retrieving. Makes it easy to reason about what the current state of the data is without the need for additional status flags.