The concept of Monad is one of the fundamental functional programming design patterns. We can understand a Monad as an encapsulation for a data type that adds a specific functionality to it or provides custom handlers for different states of the encapsulated object. One of the most commonly used is a Maybe monad. The Maybe monad is supposed to provide information about the enclosed property presence. It can return an instance of the wrapped type whenever it's available or nothing when it's not. Java 8 introduced the Optional<T> class, which is implementing the Maybe concept. It's a great way to avoid operating on null values.
However, apart from having the information about the unavailable state, we would often like to be able to provide some additional information. For example, if the server returns an empty response...
