[CFCDev] How to deal with "empty" objects without Nulls?

[Daniel Roberts]

I have objects that have instance variables with setters/getters requiring types such as uuid and date. If the object is "blank" the variables will be empty strings, which cause errors when getting or setting to blank, or bad data if I start them off with values to match their types (1/1/0001 or AAAA-AAAA-AAA etc) which just feels wrong. The way around this is to allow any type of data through the setters and getters with some extra custom validation code or getting/setting instance data structs. Neither of these seem right. Am I missing something here?
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