REST API Best practice ? return Empty object vs no object
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let's say i have an API that returns users wallet balance and List of wallet transactions which is going to expiry response = { user_balance: 20 expiring_credits : [ {object 1 } {object 2} ] } in case if user dont have any expiring transactions we can format respose in 2 ways option 1 response = { user_balance: ...