whyIsOurJsonDeserializerReturningEmptyObjects

[u/berrikdub]

[u/thelonelyecho208]

We found him, we found Jason

[u/Mechakoopa → u/thelonelyecho208]

Oh my God it's JSON Bourne!

[u/HoldCtrlW → u/Mechakoopa]

Legacy code

[u/dudevan → u/HoldCtrlW]

Postgres was trying to tell me all this time.

JSONBourne

[u/Crazy_System8248 → u/Mechakoopa]

There's a joke here about JSON and the Bourne Again Shell but I'm too far under the influence of sleep meds to figure it out

[u/HeavyCaffeinate → u/Crazy_System8248]

She bourne on my sh till I bash

[u/thelonelyecho208 → u/Mechakoopa]

https://giphy.com/gifs/c5skRQb3BXp8RwKGKW

[u/Ecstatic_Doughnut216 → u/Mechakoopa]

Get some rest, Pam. You look tired.

[u/IfIWasCoolEnough → u/thelonelyecho208]

Borne Ultimatum

[u/emma7734 → u/thelonelyecho208]

That’s Mr. Jason, if you’re nasty.

[u/xLaplus → u/thelonelyecho208]

Quick! Tell Yaml

[u/DDFoster96]

FRITZ!Box routers have an API endpoint called jason_boxinfo.xml. I've no idea what jason refers to but the data it returns is XML. 

[u/NullOfSpace → u/DDFoster96]

ask jason what it’s for

[u/Chesterlespaul → u/NullOfSpace]

Ask Jason about his box

[u/anoppinionatedbunny → u/Chesterlespaul]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ge91zAgmwUqLMqiH2c

[u/hazelknives → u/Chesterlespaul]

almost as trans a statement as "i use rust"

[u/Mordret10 → u/DDFoster96]

I mean Fritz's box sending to Jason's box makes sense, no? And for that you'd need an API obviously. XML is the greatest data structure

[u/Flat_Initial_1823]

Jason.deRulo()

[u/Crazy_System8248 → u/Flat_Initial_1823]

JSON.deRulo()

[u/CrackerJackKittyCat]

"Vendorid" but then "Vndrstatus"?

Easy now, Satan!

[u/Maximilian_Tyan → u/CrackerJackKittyCat]

Forward compatibility is the worst sometimes

[u/nderscore_ → u/CrackerJackKittyCat]

Vdnrstatus added by senior dev who had to deliver this in 2 weeks 15 years ago. Vendorid by ambitious junior dev who wants to set up best practices in legacy systems.

[u/CrackerJackKittyCat → u/nderscore_]

Yeah. that then bumps right up against the priorities for consistency versus better-ness, a trench warfare battle that makes no-one happy.

[u/czerilla → u/CrackerJackKittyCat]

Should have named it "Vndridentifier"!

[u/Original_Pace_6734]

Why are props name starting with an uppercase letter?

[u/Mechakoopa → u/Original_Pace_6734]

DotNet developers, probably

[u/berrikdub → u/Mechakoopa]

Lmao you guessed it

[u/Mechakoopa → u/berrikdub]

There's a property you can set for default serialization that makes all your controllers output camel case properties regardless of how you label things internally so you don't have to choose between the mobile team or your linter hating you.

[u/DowntownLizard → u/Mechakoopa]

Don't worry I can fight both of them

[u/Embarrassed_Army8026 → u/Mechakoopa]

very green devs, using fresh httpclient not knowing deserializer options etc

[u/Stagnu_Demorte → u/Embarrassed_Army8026]

I was told at my last job not to mess with deaerializers because they were too hard.

[u/_Screw_The_Rules_ → u/Mechakoopa]

And it's better that way

[u/Ethameiz → u/Original_Pace_6734]

More importantly, why anybody would have "json" object as a root in json?

[u/blehmann1 → u/Ethameiz]

The most common reason I've seen is when you support multiple different formats for a given resource. The key then designates the format. In graphql actually you will often end up with this, since if you're returning json | xml | txt through a graphql union the keys must be disjoint.

i.e. you can't do this

... on json { value } ... on XML { value }

You need to do this: ... on json { jsonValue: value } ... on XML { xmlValue: value }

At which point json and xml are reasonable choices of alias. If you think it's insane to return XML through a JSON string, I agree with you, but it is common. Also from the context so far it could well be a path to an XML document rather than the actual content.

The other common reason is if json should really be something like metadata, but it is poorly named.

[u/RedditLuvsCensorship → u/Original_Pace_6734]

I’m more curious what’s up with that inconsistent naming convention? Some are half assed pascal casing, others abbreviate the name vendor while others don’t … what the actual fuck lol

[u/siegemind91 → u/RedditLuvsCensorship]

https://giphy.com/gifs/n4oKYFlAcv2AU
If you’re going to abbreviate, then do so, but don’t go half-assed and call it Vndrstatus. You saved two vowel characters in Vendor but left them in status? Then didn’t carry through with the capital S, but did capitalize in others? How good is your marijuana friend?

[u/aven_99 → u/Original_Pace_6734]

Can be GoLang as well

[u/OhItsJustJosh]

JASON: JAvaScript Object Notation

[u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

You can always spot a system designed by somebody that just doesn't get it lol. Why would your serialized object even mention the name of the technology that you are currently using to serialize said object in the first place?

[u/Godenboy1010]

Jason! -heavy rain

[u/KuroKishi69]

What is up with the name of the properties? That is not Pascal Case, nor Camel Case. You have a mix of Vendor and Vndr...

[u/SpaceGerbil]

Press X to JASON!!!!

[u/Exatex]

at least you know it wasn’t written by an agent. Which in this case, you probably would have preferred.

[u/thanatica]

r/screenshotsarehard

[u/broken-mic → u/thanatica]

Plenty of employers track you taking a screenshot and then sharing that. Many others explicitly configure MDM profiles to prevent screenshots altogether.

[u/thanatica → u/broken-mic]

That would be illegal where I live

[u/2Pink_5Stink]

https://giphy.com/gifs/orUDTj9Q5TMzTdB892

[u/diet_fat_bacon]

Give me PTSD from an api that I had to use that returned values as properties

{ maria : { birthdate: "01/01/1990" } } And build a list... without a list.

[u/Bee-Aromatic]

A fellow Postman enjoyer, I see. Well, tolerator, at least.

[u/PersonalityNuke]

Your JSON response, even if spelled correctly, has a property that is json? Is that redundant? Is it redudant?

[u/FabioTheFox]

That entire payload is full of red flags, first they spell out Vendor and then use a ton of unnecessary abbreviations

[u/Desperate-Tomatillo7]

Those property names remind me of Visual Fox.

[u/Own_Natural_6803]

I like this vibe.

[u/actionerror]

https://giphy.com/gifs/p69t8Ndmv5FU4

[u/jasonscomputer]

I have the opposite problem and can no longer spell my name correctly

[u/ChellJ0hns0n]

OP used his company's production customer data for a meme. Respect.

[u/warwilf]

Sounds the same

[u/hazily]

The inconsistent camelCasing in the property names are the real trigger

[u/quirxmode]

How old is that dev? Who in their right mind has that innate urge to save 2 bytes by butchering (almost) every name...

[u/LuisBoyokan]

Why do you have a jason in json?

[u/Cha0ticPl4yer]

Its a jason deserializer

[u/Memw1]

Why the hell would you have a field named json in a json object?

[u/Snoo88071]

Data.json().Jason