QuickTip: Store Undefined and Null in Class/Table Rows on Parse.com

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Parse store undefined and null

I’ve been working on an Android app backed by Parse.com to make my development process faster and easier. So while coding the app I made a decision to have 2 classes (tables) called Conversations and User (exists by default). Conversations has a field called userId that should essentially store the objectId from User class. But some conversations are created by guest so for those records I decided to store NULL or “nothing” (undefined) under the userId column rather than Pointers which is what the column type is.

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