Meme transcription: Panel 1. Two images of JSON, one is the empty object, one is an object in which the key name maps to the value null. Caption: “Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture”
Panel 2. The Java backend dev answers, “They’re the same picture.”
Well. To Java that's just a string of utf-8 characters, assuming you haven't bastardised the encoding, and it's just yanked out of an HTTP entity. So of course they're different.
If you're using some json parser and object mapping library (like Jackson) then all bets are off 'cause it could be configured any which way.
On every other language and library it's whatever the defined behaviour is.
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