Raphael Nestler

> because the code for conditionally adding a key is much more involved than a simple ternary Is it? For spaceapi-rs it was a simple annotation: https://github.com/spaceapi-community/spaceapi-rs/blob/c60c4e25fad57e49832c2b9acb2ad5c39135c45e/src/status.rs#L49 > and to...

@dbrgn If we can't fix the validator to accept `null` for optional fields I wouldn't include this change in v15 yet.

> > I guess it is also common in JSON libraries to handle null and missing the same. > > No, that is not the case. null is a concrete...

@Juerd To answer your question > Or if you must change this anyway, please provide why this change is actually beneficial. I think its beneficial for consistency reasons: Every optional...

I'd also love to see it as an `ext_mqtt` first in an endpoint with an example on how it is used.

> downside 1: clients need to parse JSON Well the clients need to parse the original SpaceAPI JSON anyways to get the MQTT endpoint. So I think it makes stuff...

> Some spaces might want that letters should be sent to the address of the space, as they could have a letterbox, but not for parcels and bigger items. This...

Hi @the-eater in the meantime I tested it again and it seems it was kind of random that it thought it could parse the header (and probably misinterpreted some things),...

I'm all for decentralizing and it sounds interesting (I remember we also talked about it at a core meeting, no?) But one will always need a central list to bootstrap...

> I'm a bit confused, you opened an issue on the repository that contains the directory. > > On the website, it's linked here: https://spaceapi.io/write-software/ We could add a more...