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

Breaking

Response field personal_finance_category removed

What changed

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

Affects TransactionsCategoryRule reachable from 2 operations.

Who is affected

Code that reads Plaid's TransactionsCategoryRule objects, used by 2 Plaid operations.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
TransactionsCategoryRule.personal_finance_categorypresentabsent

Code that breaks

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

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