Why do we even write null fields? Can we just omit them? This will be faster, more compact, and less ambiguous.
Pavel. On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Denis Magda <dma...@gridgain.com> wrote: > 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 I'm working on migrating from outdated json-lib to Jackson issue 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 > > -- > Alexey Kuznetsov > GridGain Systems > www.gridgain.com > > >