A Business Sentinel Is Not Empty Data
A valid sentinel was converted to an empty string, breaking display, required-field validation, and request propagation until normalization was narrowed to true empty values.
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A valid sentinel was converted to an empty string, breaking display, required-field validation, and request propagation until normalization was narrowed to true empty values.
Four apparently unrelated logistics defects shared one cause: business rules protected a visible entry point instead of the shared operation that actually changed state or data.