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Plaid / Plaid API (2020-09-14) /

Breaking

Response field identity_creation_result removed

What changed

Reads of this field return undefined, and the failure surfaces wherever that value is used rather than at the call.

Affects UserUpdateResponse reachable from 1 operation.

Who is affected

Code that reads Plaid's UserUpdateResponse objects, used by 1 Plaid operation.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
UserUpdateResponse.identity_creation_resultpresentabsent
UserCreateResponse.identity_creation_resultpresentabsent

Code that breaks

// response.identity_creation_result is now undefined
const identity_creation_result = response.identity_creation_result;

Based on Plaid’s published API specification. How severity is decided.