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May
31
answered The users/{id}/timeline method is returning an extra result.
May
31
revised Questions method does not return answers
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May
31
answered Questions method does not return answers
May
31
revised Get the Site Display Name from the API
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May
31
answered Get the Site Display Name from the API
May
31
comment Guidance on usage thresholds - specifically throttling
Key behavior has changed to handle the "multiple app" scenario, so alternating between Key and No Key shouldn't be an issue.
May
31
comment Guidance on usage thresholds - specifically throttling
There should be a JSON response (with some additional information) if the API is cutting you off, are you seeing anything like that?
May
31
comment display_name isn't always there (should have OpenID name if needed)
The lack of display_name is caused by a user not having a display name set in their profile. Incorrect usernames... do you have an example of that?
May
31
comment Rep Change Notifier for Android
please format your app using the faq template ( stackapps.com/questions/7/… ) for consistency with other [app]s.
May
31
revised Post body is optional field in questions method?
deleted 2 characters in body; edited tags
May
30
comment The user and owner objects appear to be optional in the question timeline result.
@George - the majority of the /help information is generated in code. We did this so its harder (though, obviously not impossible) for the docs and the code to get out of sync.
May
30
revised The user and owner objects appear to be optional in the question timeline result.
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May
30
answered The user and owner objects appear to be optional in the question timeline result.
May
30
comment Retrieving a user's recent information
What do you mean by "recent information"?
May
30
comment Can we have maximum length of string in API help pages?
@S.Mark - nvarchar(MAX) I suppose.
May
30
answered Post body is optional field in questions method?
May
30
comment Can we have maximum length of string in API help pages?
Strictly speaking, these are limitations on the currently deploy'd SO codebase independent of the API. There's no min/max length enforced anywhere in that chain. Not to say we couldn't expose the SO limits... but I'm forced to ask, why would you need this data? I certainly hope you're not allocating MAX_STRING_LEN anywhere...
May
30
revised How to sort answers to question?
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May
30
comment How to sort answers to question?
@George - /questions/{id} only gives you the first "page" of answers anyway. If its the full set of answers (by answer_count) you should do the sort locally. Otherwise a second request is necessary anyway, might as well have the sorting done on our end.
May
30
comment How to sort answers to question?
@George - OR you could take the questions/{id}/answers route and specify sort. sort on /questions/{id} applies to the question(s) returned. {id} is vectorized in both cases (in all cases, infact).