That’s the thing.
Eg from a json response, a “post” which has “deleted_at” is null means it’s not deleted. But if the “deleted_at” is missing, it should be considered as invalid api response
That depends on the API implementation. This is like saying:
You need to use null because I wrote if (value === null)
Which is kinda like a Straw Man. If the API has a poor implementation that requires null, that doesn't mean you need to use null in your entire codebase, that just means you need to use it in your surface of contact with said API.
Me neither, that doesn't have anything to do with null. You can just omit something when is "nullish" which translates to .... you guest it, undefined, and it has the added value that payloads are smaller 🎉
Absence and null are different things, as said.
What constraints are you under that these minor payload sizes matter? you’ll probably get more out of gzip than omitting nullish.
Payloads are smaller by omitting some characters, good.
But if it causes confusion between null (value is set as no value) and undefined (value is not set), I wouldn’t take it as a good thing.
"Absence and null are different things" ... how? The size of the payload doesn't only affect the request, also the parsing. You're literally loading something trough the wire and in memory that you could omit, just to use null X_X
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That’s the thing.
Eg from a json response, a “post” which has “deleted_at” is null means it’s not deleted. But if the “deleted_at” is missing, it should be considered as invalid api response
That depends on the API implementation. This is like saying:
Which is kinda like a Straw Man. If the API has a poor implementation that requires
null, that doesn't mean you need to usenullin your entire codebase, that just means you need to use it in your surface of contact with said API.Sorry but I wouldn’t consider an api which has consistent response for nullable object, as a poor implemented api..
Me neither, that doesn't have anything to do with
null. You can just omit something when is "nullish" which translates to .... you guest it,undefined, and it has the added value that payloads are smaller 🎉Absence and null are different things, as said.
What constraints are you under that these minor payload sizes matter? you’ll probably get more out of gzip than omitting nullish.
Payloads are smaller by omitting some characters, good.
But if it causes confusion between null (value is set as no value) and undefined (value is not set), I wouldn’t take it as a good thing.
"Absence and null are different things" ... how? The size of the payload doesn't only affect the request, also the parsing. You're literally loading something trough the wire and in memory that you could omit, just to use
nullX_X