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

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

email is no longer accepted

What changed

Usually ignored rather than rejected, so the call succeeds and does something subtly different.

Affects email on BusinessVerificationCreateRequestBusiness reachable from 1 operation. Grep for it: nothing else will tell you.

Who is affected

Code that sends Plaid's BusinessVerificationCreateRequestBusiness objects, used by 1 Plaid operation.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
BusinessVerificationCreateRequestBusiness.emailpresentabsent

Code that breaks

await client.post("/…", {
  // email is now ignored, not rejected
  email: value,
});

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