FEATURE request or BUG report for API 20141201? GET headends do not (consistently) include a lineup element in the response

[garybuhrmaster]

For some requests (example: country='DVB', postal code=''), get headends includes, as part of the lineups, a lineup element. For other combination, no such element exists. While the lineup can be derived from the last element of the uri, it would seem that either the lineup element should always be returned, or never.

[rkulagowski]

Can you include a copy of what you're seeing? The same code path is used to generate the response, so I'm not sure why you're seeing different responses.

[garybuhrmaster]

Example (some entries deleted to shorten response) from a GET /headends?country=DVB&postalcode= which includes the lineup element along with the name and uri:

[
{
'location' => 'Global',
'lineups' => [
{
'uri' => '/20141201/lineups/DVB-103.0W-DEFAULT',
'lineup' => 'DVB-103.0W-DEFAULT',
'name' => 'DVB-103.0W-DEFAULT'
},
{
'uri' => '/20141201/lineups/DVB-105.0W-DEFAULT',
'lineup' => 'DVB-105.0W-DEFAULT',
'name' => 'DVB-105.0W-DEFAULT'
},
{
'lineup' => 'DVB-137.0W-DEFAULT',
'uri' => '/20141201/lineups/DVB-137.0W-DEFAULT',
'name' => 'DVB-137.0W-DEFAULT'
},
{
'uri' => '/20141201/lineups/DVB-99.0W-DEFAULT',
'lineup' => 'DVB-99.0W-DEFAULT',
'name' => 'DVB-99.0W-DEFAULT'
}
],
'transport' => 'Satellite',
'headend' => 'DVB-S'
}
];

Example (some entries deleted to shorten response) from a GET /headends?country=USA&postalcode=12345 which does not include the lineup element along with the name and uri.

[
{
'lineups' => [
{
'name' => '4DTV - Satellite',
'uri' => '/20141201/lineups/USA-4DTV-DEFAULT'
}
],
'headend' => '4DTV',
'transport' => 'Satellite',
'location' => 'USA'
},
{
'location' => 'Albany',
'lineups' => [
{
'name' => 'DIRECTV Albany - Satellite',
'uri' => '/20141201/lineups/USA-DITV532-DEFAULT'
}
],
'headend' => 'DITV532',
'transport' => 'Satellite'
},
{
'location' => 'Schenectady',
'lineups' => [
{
'name' => 'Time Warner Cable - Cable',
'uri' => '/20141201/lineups/USA-NY31587-DEFAULT'
},
{
'uri' => '/20141201/lineups/USA-NY31587-X',
'name' => 'Time Warner Cable - Digital'
}
],
'headend' => 'NY31587',
'transport' => 'Cable'
},
{
'lineups' => [
{
'uri' => '/20141201/lineups/USA-OTA-12345',
'name' => 'Antenna'
}
],
'transport' => 'Over-the-Air',
'headend' => '12345',
'location' => '12345'
}
]

[rkulagowski]

I believe that I prefer the explicit "lineup" element being included rather than pulling it out of the uri. Unless I hear objections I will be updating the server-side code shortly.

[rkulagowski]

This has been deployed; please confirm.

[garybuhrmaster]

Works for me. Thanks for the quick update!

[garybuhrmaster]

I am going to reopen this issue as I have found that the following headend group (country=USA, postal_code=94086) does not have a lineup element. All the other headends in the group do have a lineup element:

{
'location' => 'Global',
'lineups' => [
{
'uri' => '/20141201/lineups/ZZZ-FTA-DEFAULT',
'name' => 'Global - Free-to-air satellite'
}
],
'transport' => 'Satellite',
'headend' => 'FTA'
},