My senior just created this beauty of an API...

Mixing undefined/null values with empty strings & random hyphens for other variables. And the phone number not following standarised notation (we are a telephone provider)

🤣🤣🤣

Ouchie, this is a particularly painful one!

is this why I get random phone calls from countries I have never been ?

@Grumm probably not. If this is the case here, the caller would probably excuse themselves & say that they dialed the wrong number.

I assume they got your phone number from a data leak or data brokers. A lot of phone numbers are already recognised as "spam callers" so you can to your device settings and turn "spam call filtering" on. It's not perfect but it helps.

Could be straight out of my workplace. Using these stupid hyphens all over the database because "nulls are bad" somehow

My last job was devops and I was on a project to setup a VoIP Session Border Controller (SBC). I had very limited experience going in setting up SIP on my phone. I just handled the server side, helping out the telecom people.

It was the third time I've been involved in telecom (with three different companies, in two countries).

Telecom is a man made horror beyond comprehension.