What changed
Producer-side tools call this non-breaking. For a consumer it is a null dereference on an unknown future date.
Affects this value on IdentityCreationResult reachable from 2 operations. Nothing fails at the call; it fails wherever the value is finally used, which is usually somewhere else entirely.
can now be null
Who is affected
Code that reads Plaid's IdentityCreationResult objects, used by 2 Plaid operations.
Before and after
| Where | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| IdentityCreationResult | object | null|object |
Code that breaks
// response may now be absent or null const value = response ?? fallback;
Based on Plaid’s published API specification. How severity is decided.