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Also, I'm using `ContentNegotiation`, and trying to use `receiveOrNull` to 'safely' get a POST body, and it feels much less useful/safe than I'd expect it to be. If I send an empty body or try to instance a data object with non-nullable fields `receiveOrNull` will throw an exception. Is this by design?

IIRC, that only returns null if 1) content transformation was successful and 2) the type you expected `receiveOrNull&lt;MyType&gt;()` was not returned by transformation

Right, I'm wondering if that's by design, because I have to then be aware of the exceptions thrown by the implementation, or catch something generic like `IOException` if I want `receiveOrNull` to be safe. I always felt that the `OrNull` functions were for situations where you don't particularly care _why_ something failed.