extensions/live pagination broken

[BarryCarlyon]

Brief description

The pagination token is always OjI

How to reproduce

Call https://api.twitch.tv/helix/extensions/live?extension_id=es7m79v91nz4xxhzljdl3rpg9m1iuz&first=2

Observe a pagination of OjI

load it again get different results and the same pagination token, see #539

Call https://api.twitch.tv/helix/extensions/live?extension_id=es7m79v91nz4xxhzljdl3rpg9m1iuz&first=2&after=OjI

And get possible the same results and the same pagination token

Expected behavior

Pagination to work

[BarryCarlyon]

if you call using SoundAlerts ClientID, bttsqjy6dnv05acplp5vy0mflgrh3z

you get a pagination cursor

YVc1emRHRnNiQ014TURBek1qVTBNVGs2WW5SMGMzRnFlVFprYm5Zd05XRmpjR3h3TlhaNU1HMW1iR2R5YURONk9nOjY

Then if you call with an after with that cursor you get

YVc1emRHRnNiQ014TURBek1qVTBNVGs2WW5SMGMzRnFlVFprYm5Zd05XRmpjR3h3TlhaNU1HMW1iR2R5YURONk9nOjY

which is the same, and you get differnet records every time you load (see #539)

[beheh]

I called this out in #524: after is wrong, but cursor works. So as a workaround you can use cursor for now.

[BarryCarlyon]

call

https://api.twitch.tv/helix/extensions/live?extension_id=es7m79v91nz4xxhzljdl3rpg9m1iuz&first=10

{
	"data": [
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "32409994",
			"broadcaster_name": "BikeMan",
			"game_name": "Ready or Not",
			"game_id": "511701",
			"title": "‘Ready Or Not’ co-op with @ArielJadeLive @FevertheOctopus and Voidcrow! | Epic Creator Code: BIKEMAN #EpicPartner"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "742120758",
			"broadcaster_name": "AutumnTeien",
			"game_name": "Impossible Creatures",
			"game_id": "16303",
			"title": "Sprinting to the end! Probably cheating, because game is hard and I am smooth-brain!"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "125027110",
			"broadcaster_name": "CasasPlaysTV",
			"game_name": "God of War",
			"game_id": "6369",
			"title": "🔴 God of War PC 🎮 - Sunday Stream - Let's Play"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "478600384",
			"broadcaster_name": "StaticArbiter",
			"game_name": "Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen",
			"game_id": "13332",
			"title": "[1st Playthrough/6th Attempt] 2 Year Affiliate Anniversary!! - Day #2 - POKEMON RADICAL RED [GBA] - !ffxiv"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "45993015",
			"broadcaster_name": "Elkinoo",
			"game_name": "Solasta: Crown of the Magister",
			"game_id": "514205",
			"title": "[FR] Solasta: Crown of the Magister \"Il perd la boussole ah ce taré !\" ©DamDSN"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "44704856",
			"broadcaster_name": "MockKinkajou",
			"game_name": "Phasmophobia",
			"game_id": "518184",
			"title": "Phas with my new horrog game friends :)"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "46775247",
			"broadcaster_name": "MemoryLeakDeath",
			"game_name": "Star Citizen",
			"game_id": "71375",
			"title": "More Sunday Citizen! | part 32"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "83327987",
			"broadcaster_name": "TheDoomgoose",
			"game_name": "RimWorld",
			"game_id": "394568",
			"title": "Goosemas Stream 8, Tunnel Clowns defending the Adorable Geese| !youtube !discord !rimmods"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "42596998",
			"broadcaster_name": "Arovyn",
			"game_name": "Alan Wake Remastered",
			"game_id": "1293419931",
			"title": "Alan Wake Remastered | Supernatural Sunday | DLC"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "42012172",
			"broadcaster_name": "xPELEx",
			"game_name": "God of War",
			"game_id": "6369",
			"title": "God of War continued | We gamin' | \\o/ |"
		}
	],
	"pagination": "OjEw"
}

then call

https://api.twitch.tv/helix/extensions/live?extension_id=es7m79v91nz4xxhzljdl3rpg9m1iuz&first=10&cursor=OjEw

{
	"data": [
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "45588989",
			"broadcaster_name": "FireStarW",
			"game_name": "Minecraft",
			"game_id": "27471",
			"title": "Exploring NEW caves. Also \"beating\" game for the first time as a 2012 oldster !mods"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "32409994",
			"broadcaster_name": "BikeMan",
			"game_name": "Ready or Not",
			"game_id": "511701",
			"title": "‘Ready Or Not’ co-op with @ArielJadeLive @FevertheOctopus and Voidcrow! | Epic Creator Code: BIKEMAN #EpicPartner"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "44704856",
			"broadcaster_name": "MockKinkajou",
			"game_name": "Phasmophobia",
			"game_id": "518184",
			"title": "Phas with my new horrog game friends :)"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "83327987",
			"broadcaster_name": "TheDoomgoose",
			"game_name": "RimWorld",
			"game_id": "394568",
			"title": "Goosemas Stream 8, Tunnel Clowns defending the Adorable Geese| !youtube !discord !rimmods"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "1876588",
			"broadcaster_name": "jonnysamsara",
			"game_name": "Sea of Thieves",
			"game_id": "490377",
			"title": "Dream Stream - Sea of Fashion"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "42596998",
			"broadcaster_name": "Arovyn",
			"game_name": "Alan Wake Remastered",
			"game_id": "1293419931",
			"title": "Alan Wake Remastered | Supernatural Sunday | DLC"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "478600384",
			"broadcaster_name": "StaticArbiter",
			"game_name": "Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen",
			"game_id": "13332",
			"title": "[1st Playthrough/6th Attempt] 2 Year Affiliate Anniversary!! - Day #2 - POKEMON RADICAL RED [GBA] - !ffxiv"
		},
		{
			"broadcaster_id": "41367478",
			"broadcaster_name": "GeekEtiquette",
			"game_name": "Death Stranding",
			"game_id": "494364",
			"title": "Death Stranding (PC) First Playthrough | "
		}
	]
}

At the current time:

This returned Bikeman and TheDoomgoose on both pages for example and in a previous test this returned CasasPlaysTV and StaticArbiter on page 1 and page 2. (And other cross overs thats just a quick sample)

Using cursor instead of after doesn't solve the problem as the results are not "sorted" so you cannot obtain all results due to the data not being sorted or returned in a sorted fashion.

So Pagination is useless due to a funamental issue with the endpoint.

[KiKoS0]

Yeah I noticed the issue couple of months ago, didn't know that there is an open issue for it so I went ahead and used the legacy V5 endpoint that worked pretty well.
Now I'm back to square one since the old endpoint is getting deprecated, this is really unfortunate because my app heavily relies on this endpoint's result.

[Breci]

Can confirm and reproduce.
This bug is blocking my transition to helix because I rely on the live extension endpoint

[jbulava]

Ticketed for investigation.
HLX-2298

[jbulava]

The issue has been confirmed. A change will be made so that the pagination token is read from after as documented. Given that some developers may have noticed that cursor can be provided for subsequent calls instead of after, we will look into which applications have made requests in this manner and communicate this update directly before removing the functionality that honors cursor as a query parameter for pagination.

[jbulava]

The team has deployed the fix for this today.

[BarryCarlyon]

Looks good.

So just a question of the pagination cursor being malfromed compared to rest of helix, but the docs are correct