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

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

value can now return "ADMIN", "FRAUD"

What changed

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

Affects this value on TransferAuthorizationDecisionRationaleCode reachable from 3 operations.

New values: ADMIN, FRAUD.

can now return "ADMIN", "FRAUD"

Who is affected

Code that reads Plaid's TransferAuthorizationDecisionRationaleCode objects, used by 3 Plaid operations.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
TransferAuthorizationDecisionRationaleCode"ERROR", "ITEM_LOGIN_REQUIRED", "MANUALLY_VERIFIED_ITEM", "MIGRATED_ACCOUNT_ITEM", "NSF", "PAYMENT_PROFILE_LOGIN_REQUIRED", "RISK", "TRANSFER_LIMIT_REACHED", null"ADMIN", "ERROR", "FRAUD", "ITEM_LOGIN_REQUIRED", "MANUALLY_VERIFIED_ITEM", "MIGRATED_ACCOUNT_ITEM", "NSF", "PAYMENT_PROFILE_LOGIN_REQUIRED", "RISK", "TRANSFER_LIMIT_REACHED", null

Code that breaks

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

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