The Movie Database Support
Support → API Support
String instead of Integer in External_IDs
posted by Stephan SchückSTAFFMOD on April 19, 2016 at 11:42 AM
Returns "tvdb_id":"5540926&" as TVDB ID. The TVDB ID should be cleared from any non-numeric value.
Reply by Travis Bell
on April 19, 2016 at 6:11 PM
Hi Stephan,
I'll take a look at this when I'm back to work next week.
CHeers.
Reply by Travis Bell
on April 25, 2016 at 10:25 AM
The fix for this was just pushed live. You can expect to start seeing the proper data in ~4-6 hours, when the cached items are purged from cache.
Cheers.
Reply by Stephan Schück
on April 25, 2016 at 1:27 PM
Thank you. Looks good!
What's the official/database value type off all external ID's? Looks like it's still possible to enter non-integer values for TVDB ID on the website. I'm working with LordMike's TMDbLib (https://github.com/LordMike/TMDbLib). I think it's important to use the same/official value types in his TMDBLib.
So my questions is: If all values are defined as String in your API?
Reply by Travis Bell
on April 25, 2016 at 1:30 PM
I do not do any validation on the external ID inputs, and yes the field is a string.
If you spot some bad data, I would encourage you to either fix it or at least head in and delete it. The data may otherwise, never get fixed.
Cheers.