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by Matthias247 1827 days ago
That doesn't protect against a file already being generated in a broken fashion. Or that it's content is not compatible to the newest schema you are using for deserialization.

For serialization in a distributed system you always want to have a parser which can detect invalid data and has means to support forward and backward compatibility.

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> forward and backward compatibility

Also for HTTP requests I suppose