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Using null instead of empty strings #36
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Working on this. |
This is mostly done and in the API now. Will review the remaining responses and update as needed. |
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Flagging: committee memberships have a couple of empty string fields: "note": "",
"begin_date":"" |
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Will fix. |
In general, using
null
instead of""
will be semantically more clear in communicating when there is no value for a field, versus when the value for a field is an empty string.For example, if a legislator has no YouTube account, the value should ideally be
null
instead of""
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