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.”
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.