I actually had an external integration beak because someone's last name contained "null". The integration failed with an invalid JSON error. After debugging the payload with one of their developers, we narrowed it down to one record. Apparently, they had a hardcoded rule where they replaced null with "" and it caused two double quotes on the property :|. I had to filter out this one record for a couple weeks until they received all of the approvals to push their fix to prod...
Ha. Had similar once. We were running a site hosted by “mega corp” and filtering results was just broken on live. After a protracted series of forms to get error logs I realised they were silently striping the “select” from the selection_id url param.
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So does that mean that Law Office of Dave Null is going to run into problems registering in the UK?
I actually had an external integration beak because someone's last name contained "null". The integration failed with an invalid JSON error. After debugging the payload with one of their developers, we narrowed it down to one record. Apparently, they had a hardcoded rule where they replaced null with "" and it caused two double quotes on the property :|. I had to filter out this one record for a couple weeks until they received all of the approvals to push their fix to prod...
Ha. Had similar once. We were running a site hosted by “mega corp” and filtering results was just broken on live. After a protracted series of forms to get error logs I realised they were silently striping the “select” from the selection_id url param.
That's appalling. D-:
Yeah i've come across a few names that are code terms and cause major issues if you're not doing things right. No special characters required.
License plates can be fun
https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-ha...
Why only code ? I tought Dick Peacock was (and other such names) is forbidden.
His brothers Drew and Chris all similarly marginalised. I remember this horrible fact from school.