Please search for existing tickets before opening a new one. I know that's not always straight forward, but a lot of the time it's fairly obvious if something related is already open. Thanks!
This was discussed in HB-31, but IMHO there is nothing semantically wrong with component (object) with all null values. There are use cases when this is reasonable. I belive this could be improved, especially if patches in HB-31 are still fine.
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