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

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

value gained response values

What changed

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

Affects this value on BusinessWebsiteBuildStatus reachable from 2 operations.

can now return null

Who is affected

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

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
BusinessWebsiteBuildStatus"active", "coming_soon", "inactive""active", "coming_soon", "inactive", null

Code that breaks

switch (response) {
  // existing branches …

  default:
    throw new Error("unexpected value");
}

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