Strange sync. issue.... - what could have happened?

Based on the messages on the sync. gateway I guess it did exist… - but just trying to figure out based on the messages I see in the log.

The way I get the document is via a direct lookup - and that’s where the problems started as all items were empty (but the document wasn’t null). Is it normal that a deleted document will return the tombstone as an “empty” document if it is deleted? It hasn’t been a problem before but that could just have been plain luck. When getting a document (via the Java API on the server) then I only check for the document not being null…