The Movie Database Support
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Popularity returning a string when appending results
posted by dazegoSTAFFMOD on December 31, 2013 at 9:29 PM
http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/550?api_key=mykey&append_to_response=trailers,similar_movies
Notice popularity is now a string in the movie call but in similar it's a double. If I remove append_to_response, the movie details is a double as usual.
Reply by Travis Bell
on January 2, 2014 at 11:29 AM
Hi dazego,
Whoa, that's a weird one. I've created a new ticket and will look at this when I get some time.
Thanks.
Reply by neelance
on March 28, 2014 at 3:11 PM
I just stumbled across this, too. My client is written in Go which is type strict when deserialising JSON, so the whole thing just crashed. I recently switched away from the rottentomatoes.com API which is extremely inconsistent regarding types. Until now I was very happy how smoothly everything worked with your API, so I hope that you can remove this speed bump soon. ;-)
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 28, 2014 at 3:20 PM
I spent a few minutes looking into it earlier this month and came up empty. It's seriously not making sense to me, I'll try to take another stab at it next week.