{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Level/abstract-leveldown/issues/63","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Level/abstract-leveldown/issues/63/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Level/abstract-leveldown/issues/63/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Level/abstract-leveldown/issues/63/events","html_url":"https://github.com/Level/abstract-leveldown/issues/63","id":75903807,"number":63,"title":"make location optional","user":{"login":"juliangruber","id":10247,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10247?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/juliangruber","html_url":"https://github.com/juliangruber","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/juliangruber/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/juliangruber/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/juliangruber/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/juliangruber/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/juliangruber/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/juliangruber/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/juliangruber/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/juliangruber/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/juliangruber/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Level/abstract-leveldown/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"84b6eb"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-05-13T08:41:17Z","updated_at":"2015-05-13T08:41:17Z","closed_at":null,"body":"The [recent change](https://github.com/Level/abstract-leveldown/commit/e2547f393d680da861cf0c2fed0e52184b9277dd) to validate that a location isn't an empty string was actually a breaking change, as modules like [memdown here](https://github.com/Level/memdown/blob/master/memdown.js#L124) may pass an empty string.\r\n\r\nI'm for making location optional as it has shown that enough backends don't need one."}}