Response field incident_updates 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 incident_updates on HealthIncident reachable from 3 operations. 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 HealthIncident objects, used by 3 Plaid operations.

Before and after

Code that breaks

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

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