Why is data an empty object for a 204 response?

[mhuttner]

I ran into this issue for an api call that may return 204.

If i check the returned data i expect it to be null

const { data } = await client.GET("/api/route/204");
if (data === null) {
 // do something
}
const { field} = data;

But this library explicitly sets the data to be an empty object?!

openapi-typescript/packages/openapi-fetch/src/index.js

Lines 156 to 160 in 2a4b067

	// handle empty content
	// note: we return `{}` because we want user truthy checks for `.data` or `.error` to succeed
	if (response.status === 204 || response.headers.get("Content-Length") === "0") {
	return response.ok ? { data: {}, response } : { error: {}, response };
	}

Is there a reason for this?
This also breaks the type system, because it expects data to be the full object, null or undefined but not {}.