What changed
Producer-side tools call this non-breaking. For a consumer it is a null dereference on an unknown future date.
Affects postal_code on ClientUserIdentityAddress reachable from 3 operations. Nothing fails at the call; it fails wherever the value is finally used, which is usually somewhere else entirely.
no longer guaranteed present; can now be null
Who is affected
Code that reads Plaid's ClientUserIdentityAddress objects, used by 3 Plaid operations.
Before and after
| Where | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| ClientUserIdentityAddress.postal_code | always present | may be missingno longer guaranteed present |
| ClientUserIdentityAddress.postal_code | string | null|stringcan now be null |
Code that breaks
// response.postal_code may now be absent or null const postal_code = response.postal_code ?? fallback;
Based on Plaid’s published API specification. How severity is decided.