Category group name changes not sent back in delta requests
planned
Brandon Trautmann
When changing a category group name, the change is not sent back in delta requests, meaning group names become stale UNTIL a category within that group is modified, which is then sent back in a delta request including the changes for the surrounding group.
Steps to reproduce:
- Make Postman request to categories, take note of last knowledge.
- Change group name in YNAB
- Make delta request, no change is sent (but server knowledge does increment)
- Delete or rename category in the group
- Make another delta request, change is sent back.
Brandon Trautmann
planned
Moving this back to planned as I'm not spending mental energy on it at the moment. We'll need to think of a solution to this and other API bugs like this at some point.
Brandon Trautmann
YNAB API team got back to me:
Thanks for following up Brandon, after careful consideration, our developers have determined they won't be able to devote resources to fixing the issue with the/categories endpoint at this time.
In most cases, if a bug hasn't been fixed by now, it's due to one (or a combination of) the following:
- it's only affecting a handful of people
- the fix is really complex relative to the severity of the bug
- we plan on making changes to the app which will squash the bug in the process
So it looks like we'll need to roll our own solution to this (womp)
Brandon Trautmann
in progress
Will reach out to YNAB API team.