Hi,
I am enhancing an system to integrate to the GET /company/{company_number} API as part of the system’s registration process.
The system can only store a company’s name with a maximum of 50 characters. Are you be able to confirm the maximum length of string value of company_name property in the JSON response, and whether it will exceed 50 characters?
Many thanks,
DOditt
Yes I can confirm that it can exceed 50 chars.
see 00015147, 00076803, 10004212, 10004740, 10005303 etc…
All documentation issued by Companies House that we hold gives the NAME field as a “160 character alphanumeric field” and we know there are examples of the full extent being used. It may also be worth pointing out that “alphanumeric” includes an extensive list of designated special characters.
Frank Murphy
https://statbooks.co.uk/
Thanks @MArkWilliams and @frank for your prompt replies. I did suspect the 50 character limit of the existing system to be insufficient.
@frank (or @MArkWilliams), would you be able point to which documentation you are referring to? I of course tried searching for this information on the Companies House pages before posting, but was unable to find anything specifically for this. The documentation might be useful for any other queries I may have.
Also thanks for pointing out the alphanumerics, fortunately mechanisms that will maintain this data in the existing system support the use of alphanumeric text.
Many thanks
We are external data consumers and have found the best open source documentation to be at Companies House XML Gateway Input - Schema Status.
Good luck
Frank Murphy
https://statbooks.co.uk/