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

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

value can now return "rfp"

What changed

Producer-side tools call this additive. It breaks exhaustive switches, strict parsers and generated client enums.

Affects this value on TransferNetwork reachable from 5 operations.

New value: rfp.

can now return "rfp"

Who is affected

Code that reads Plaid's TransferNetwork objects, used by 5 Plaid operations.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
TransferNetwork"ach", "rtp", "same-day-ach", "wire""ach", "rfp", "rtp", "same-day-ach", "wire"

Code that breaks

switch (response) {
  // existing branches …
  // no branch for "rfp"
  default:
    throw new Error("unexpected value");
}

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