Booleans that rely on redacted are misleading.

[mattharbord]

HI!

Just started playing around with the API - from the closed issues and the responses I get I understand you're anonymising a lot of data. Understandable.

I wondered if this was documented anywhere more verbosely than what's in iQL?

Am I right in my understanding that fields like makers in post will now be an array of 0 for the id unless I am one of the makers (and therefore my id would be in scope for the request)?

Running this query:

query test {
  post(id: "382374") {
    comments (first: 1) {
      nodes {
        url
        user {
          isMaker
        }
        userId
      }
    }
    name
    url
    makers {
      id
    }
  }
}

The response gives me 0's for the makers - fine, I guess.

My problem is that the isMaker flag under the user in the comments nodes is false, when in reality it is true - would it be possible to use a more explicit state such as null rather than mislead?

And is the redaction a continuous work in progress? Or is the API currently stable?

Thanks!

[ztat]

+1 and following