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

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

Response field value is no longer guaranteed

What changed

Producer-side tools call this non-breaking. For a consumer it is a null dereference on an unknown future date.

Affects this value on CraReportGetProductAttributes reachable from 1 operation. Nothing fails at the call; it fails wherever the value is finally used, which is usually somewhere else entirely.

can now be null

Who is affected

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

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
CraReportGetProductAttributesobjectnull|object

Code that breaks

// response may now be absent or null
const value = response ?? fallback;

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