Notes
The new website for the Locations API is live! The API itself is not yet available, but we’re going to start using that site for relevant release notes. Here’s our plan:
- Both Locations and Finance sites will receive updates based on our sprint reviews
- Each site will only have updates relevant to that API
- Topics relevant to both APIs will be cross posted to both sites
- Sprint reviews will still be combined
Since we’re mostly focused on the Locations API right now, we don’t have any big feature rollouts for Finance. However, we do have two updates:
Award assistance listing number change: EAP is going to make a change to the data type of the assistance listing number to accommodate letters as well. Behind the scenes, we’ll be doing the same. We’ve always delivered the assistance listing number as a string rather than a number, so the output of the API won’t change. The only difference will be that in the event of an empty field, the API used to show “0.0”, but it will now show “” (an empty string).
Sales item groups: An astute user noticed that the groupReferenceId attribute in the salesItems endpoint was always empty. We looked into it further and learned that sales items can belong to more than one group. Due to some limitations in the source data, we can’t currently get both the name and ID of all the groups a sales item might belong to. EAP is aware of this issue and will work on a solution.
In the mean time, we’ll update the salesItems endpoint to include multiple reference IDs instead of a single groupReferenceId, and we’ll remove groupItem (the attribute that holds the group name), since we don’t have reliable data for it. This change hasn’t been rolled out yet. We’ll have more details on what it’ll look like in a future sprint review.
API Changes
awards.assistanceListingNumber will now show “” (an empty string) for empty values instead of “0.0”