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Square / Square API /

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

available_online is no longer accepted

What changed

Usually ignored rather than rejected, so the call succeeds and does something subtly different.

Affects available_online on CatalogItem reachable from 10 operations. Grep for it: nothing else will tell you.

Who is affected

Code that sends Square's CatalogItem objects, used by 10 Square operations.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
CatalogItem.available_onlinepresentabsent

Code that breaks

await client.post("/…", {
  // available_online is now ignored, not rejected
  available_online: value,
});

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