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null genre id
posted by ponchickSTAFFMOD on May 11, 2013 at 1:59 AM
API /3/movie sometimes return null genre id when optional language parameter specified. For example genre list for query http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/tt0119472?language=ru :
"genres":[{"id":35,"name":"комедия"},{"id":80,"name":"криминал"},{"id":null,"name":"роуд-муви"}]
Last id is null. English query has no such problem :
"genres":[{"id":35,"name":"Comedy"},{"id":80,"name":"Crime"},{"id":1115,"name":"Road Movie"}]
Now I found at least 3 movies with that problem - tt0119472, tt0097674 and tt0342965.
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 12, 2013 at 9:53 AM
Hi ponchick,
I'm betting it's more to do with the genre translations than anything. Is this happening with the same genres, ie. road movie looks to be a victim.
I've created a new ticket for this and will look at it this week.
Thanks.
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 15, 2013 at 1:44 PM
Can you give this a try now? Should be fixed.
P.S. it's possible some entries could still be cached but I tested id 158 and it looks good.
Reply by ponchick
on May 15, 2013 at 6:38 PM
Still got issues with 13062 and 13925, all others are fine. I'll try next morning to be sure.
Reply by ponchick
on May 16, 2013 at 6:08 PM
Now all works fine. Thank you!