Issue 179 - twitter-api - favorite value of JSON is null or bool?

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Status:	Fixed
Owner:	alexfpayne
Closed:	Dec 2008
Type-Defect
Priority-Critical

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Reported by kazuho, Dec 03, 2008

Today, I suddenly received a JSON value which favorite status value type is
null instead of boolean. This may crush several application which assumed
that the favorite value type is bool.

The favorite value type was null or true until October, then it was true or
false until today. So what is exactly the favorite type??

Comment 1 by m...@twitter.com, Dec 08, 2008

From  issue 185 :

I have encountered a tweet (id 1043913802), which for some reason has
"favorited":null in the JSON feed instead of true/false.

Comment 2 by alexfpayne, Dec 08, 2008

We've assigned this ticket internally as critical priority.  I'm not working on it personally, but I'm claiming it and 
I'll update here.

Status: Accepted
Owner: alexfpayne
Labels: -Priority-Medium Priority-Critical

Comment 3 by alexfpayne, Dec 08, 2008

I've been informed that we have a fix and that it will be deployed tomorrow (Tuesday, Dec 9th, most likely after 
noon PST).

Status: Fixed

Comment 4 by kazuho, Dec 08, 2008

Thank you very much Alex!

Comment 5 by kazuho, Dec 09, 2008

I don't want to push you, but if you could inform me when the deploy is done, it
would help a lot. Thanks!

Comment 6 by alexfpayne, Dec 09, 2008

The deploy is done.  It may take a few hours for corrupt API response to be evicted from our caches.

Comment 7 by kazuho, Dec 09, 2008

Thanks!

Comment 8 by ajroeleveld, Dec 09, 2008

Great! So if I understand it, it is a issue that solves by twitter (technically). It 
is not an iPhone app update?

Comment 9 by alexfpayne, Dec 09, 2008

Correct.  The error was entirely on our end, and should not require an app updates if they were looking for a 
boolean value for that attribute.

Issue 179:	favorite value of JSON is null or bool?
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