NodeBB <> Lemmy federation issue (re: nullable image/icon)
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@julian there's no difference on the consuming side (and in many programming languages you can check for truthiness with something like `if x.get("totalItems")` which defaults to returning null if missing anyway)
functionally, you either have the information, or you don't
trwnh@mastodon.social as someone working on the consuming side, that is not correct.
If my AP lib automatically assumed null when requesting an object property that didn't exist I'd consider that a bug.
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@julian this wouldn't be your AP lib, it would be your programming language itself
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@julian this wouldn't be your AP lib, it would be your programming language itself
trwnh@mastodon.social I'm coding in js, which has all sorts of footguns, but even that won't return null when I attempt to access the non-existent property of an object... ๐
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@julian what does js return instead? in most cases i'm familiar with, programming languages use null or nil or None for anything that doesn't have a value, or any reference which doesn't point anywhere. hence a null pointer exception when you try to dereference a null. if you try to get a value for a key that isn't in the dictionary, you get null by default because there is no value for a missing key. how would you consume a null value? if you have nothing to say, why say anything?
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@julian what does js return instead? in most cases i'm familiar with, programming languages use null or nil or None for anything that doesn't have a value, or any reference which doesn't point anywhere. hence a null pointer exception when you try to dereference a null. if you try to get a value for a key that isn't in the dictionary, you get null by default because there is no value for a missing key. how would you consume a null value? if you have nothing to say, why say anything?
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undefinedand perhaps that's why we're disagreeing on our interpretations of how these values should be handled.nullin JavaScript is very explicitly a declaration that there is no value or "intentionally empty".nullandundefinedare two separate things here at least. -
@julian that might be it, yeah. languages outside of javascript generally don't make a distinction between null and undefined, and even in javascript these are used inconsistently. for example localStorage.getItem will return null for a missing key. practically speaking, the "intentionally" distinction is a distinction without a difference in most processing contexts.
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NodeBB now sneaks in a mention to the category/community, and this gets pre-filled in the Mastodon composer.
I tested it against piefed's crust instance, and the response from Mastodon to my post on NodeBB successfully made its way to crust for distribution :tada:
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@julian Love to hear it ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ
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@bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy what! NodeBB has been sending out preview for quite awhile now, but there are exactly zero receivers. Mastodon doesn't support it.
I think with this change BridgyFed would be the first one.
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@bsky.brid.gy oooh, thank you so much! Especially allowing the repky function to accounts that are not bridged! This is amazing!
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@bsky.brid.gy keep up the great work!
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@julian I really tried. Maybe should have reached for AI. I'll look into that web+ap:// scheme, thank you!
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@travisfw@fosstodon.org I don't blame you for not reading through the whole thread.
Suffice to say I think there is merit in using web+ap:// scheme at the browser (and possibly app) level.
PWAs can register themselves as a handler of those types (web+), and on the web side there are tricks to allow for the opening of them in the PWA or falling back to browser https.
It's worth experimentation, I think.
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@julian it's complicated, isn't it. I was focusing on the narrower case of one app calling a default (or system dialog to choose) app to handle the post, rather than even necessarily involving the browser. But could one solution (somewhere in that veritably long-ass thread) serve the whole matrix of calling web->web, web->app, app->app, and app->web?
