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Discussion on: Is “Defensive Programming” actually healthy?

 
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Cubicle Buddha • Edited

Yup yup. Yea the map + the undefined check would be the ideal approach. Sorry I didn’t understand at first. Classic misunderstanding with remote communication. My bad! :)

Oh and as far as the server sending bad or new data types, I have been using a library called TSOA to enforce runtime types at the boundaries. It’s a way of preventing “garbage in garbage out.” It’s pretty cool stuff. There are similar libraries that do runtime checking in the UI too.

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Jan van Brügge

No, I would not add runtime checks to this. If you call the function with something different than the types specify that's on your own. The caller has to verify that he can call the function