Profile URL Changes

Victorine Courtois
Victorine Courtois
edited July 2015 in Product

At least one of my clients uses the API for some integrations and the recent profile URL change borked his integrations. If we could possibly get a heads up of a few days prior to any forthcoming URL changes, that would be great! :) A blog post would be useful here, as well as some individualized emails.

Thanks! :)

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  • Vanilla Forums
    Vanilla Forums
    edited July 2015

    We absolutely should have announced this change ahead of time. The reason we didn't is that it wasn't done on purpose; a config setting change got cowboy-coded which caused this as a side-effect. We didn't catch it until it caused Reactions to break in production. :anguished:

    For context, the old default was /profile/{id}/{name} and the new one is /profile/{name}. Both have always worked. The default is what our navigation links in Vanilla use.

    An integration with our official API would not have relied on a userid being in the URL, so it sounds like they're doing something a bit hacky.

    Enabling non-unique usernames would actually restore the old structure, but that's not a good trade off. In this case, I suggest they modify their code to not rely on the userid being present - that's what we did to fix Reactions.

    As much as I don't like how it happened, I do like the new defaults more than the old ones, so I don't really want to revert the switch.

  • Victorine Courtois
    Victorine Courtois

    Thanks for the info, Linc. I think that the client in question (Royal College of Dentists of Canada) has made the appropriate changes on their end for their integrations, but they simply requested a heads up in the future. Good to know that we would announce it under normal circumstances.

    FWIW, personally, I like the new defaults, too!

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