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

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

products is no longer accepted

What changed

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

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

Who is affected

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

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
UserProductsTerminateRequest.productspresentabsent

Code that breaks

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

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