I’ve also never seen any piece of software that would treat a single leading zero as octal
I thought JavaScript did that, but it turns out it doesn’t. I thought Java did that, but it turns out it doesn’t. Python did it until version 2.7: https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/functions.html#int. C still does it: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/strtol
I’m not sure if you’re getting it, so I’ll explain just in case.
In computer science a few conventions have emerged on how numbers should be interpreted, depending on how they start:
0b, so 0b10011100, so 01160x, so 0x8EIf your zip code starts with 9, it won’t be interpreted as octal. You’re fine.
Frankly that there isn’t a specific field signalling authorized/not-authorized
The instance I was bitching about was this: There’s a lot of region-specific data coming from the backend. But the user is only authorized for certain regions. So for instance the North-American guy gets this object: { "CA": [/* list of stuff */], "US": [/* list of stuff */], "MX": [ /* list of stuff */ ]}, while the US-only guy only gets {"US": [ /* list of stuff */] }. Are you suggesting that the response should also include flags isCaPresent, isUsPresent, isMxPresent for every country?
The issue with null vs not present surfaced because I, the frontend, checked if the returned object contained the key "CA" and then tried to iterate over the list of stuff, which happened to be null, which is hard to iterate over. I agree that I could’ve checked if the key was present and not null.
The meme, however, was lamenting that the backend developer, refuses to acknowledge that these two JSONs are different,since they only see their POJOs, where both map to CA: null, US: [], MX: null.
they also pay 3000$/mo for a moldy apartment
the rule is flagging a false negative
false positive?
Yes, I know the field isn’t nullable in the database. I’m asking you what you are sending me, jack——
(Directed at a colleague)
Somehow I can tell that this story didn’t go down in the US.
I wouldn’t have thought that content suitable for talesfromtechsupport would be acceptable here. As the description says,
This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!
Customer support is not usually related to programming.
try to stick with integers in a currency’s smallest unit of division
And then the marketing department comes up with products that cost 1.5ct apiece.
Hell, no. If I wanted to save bytes, I’d use a binary format, or just fucking zip the JSON. Looking at a request-response pair and quickly understanding the transferred data is invaluable.
I’m sad that there are people who call themselves developers who need to be told this.
Both instances are legal serialized JSON. What makes you think otherwise?
So it sounds like an issue with […] handling per-spec the presence of data which you don’t use.
The trouble is, in this specific use case, the data may either be there or it may not be, depending on authorization. I’m checking specifically if the key is present to determine whether the user has access to that data (and display a toggle for that data), or if the user mustn’t see it and thus doesn’t need the toggle.
The wrong assumption was that if the key is there, then the value is not null. That assumption was invalidated by an update on the server side. Of course I could’ve checked if the value of the key is nullish. But it’s still annoying to have a breaking frontend because the backend changed how it serves its data.
I refuse to validate data that comes from the backend I specifically develop against.
Probably so ships don’t bump into it?
Or even funnier: It gets parsed in octal, which does yield a valid zip code. Good luck finding that.
Holy shit, I’m sorry.
Though I once proposed an API like that for user preferences. I just needed “someone” (that wasn’t the client) to store a bunch of data for me. The backend doesn’t interpret it, the backend doesn’t edit it, so why should they deserialize and serialize it again? Just give it to me when I ask for it, kay?
The mansion in which Daisy resides with whats-his-name has a light at its end. It blinks green.
Arguments about politics don’t need a 2000 word essay on the meaning of Daisy’s pier light being green instead of yellow.
Node doesn’t.
> parseInt('077') 77https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/parseInt