This looks strange. Definitely for consistency reasons it makes sense that all
‘null’ objects including string are serialized as “null”.
In regards to the compatibility stuff I think it can be resolved somehow.
—
Denis
> On Jun 16, 2016, at 12:15 PM, Alexey Kuznetsov <akuznet...@gridgain.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi All!
>
> I'm working on migrating from outdated json-lib to Jackson issue IGNITE-3277
> [1] and found that previous library serialize null strings as "" and null
> objects as "null", for example:
> {"a": "", "b": null}
>
> How about to serialize all values as "null" ?
> In this case we would definitely know that in Java before serialization to
> JSON was really NULL, not empty string.
>
> But this may break compatibility in some cases.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-3277
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-3277>
>
> --
> Alexey Kuznetsov
> GridGain Systems
> www.gridgain.com <http://www.gridgain.com/>
