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

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

report_type is no longer accepted

What changed

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

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

Who is affected

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

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
CraCheckReportVerificationPdfGetRequest.report_typepresentabsent

Code that breaks

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

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