RP04PSC09 action_date

API Issues
#1

Hi,

We came across an issue with the RP04PSC09 document type earlier on today. It appears for some reason in the JSON for the filing history item, an empty action_date is being sent across. This doesn’t happen with any other document types (if it doesn’t have an action date then it’s simply not sent in the JSON). As a result this caused our system to break as it’s trying to deserialise an empty string into a datetime C# type.

Would it be possible to amend the RP04PSC09 (and any other document types) so that they work in the same way as all of the other document types so that if there’s no action date then the property isn’t sent across in the JSON rather than have an empty value there?

Cheers,

Chris.

#2

RP04PSC09 = Second filing for the withdrawal of a person with significant control statement

action_date - seems this field isn’t documented yet in e.g. filingHistoryList but it’s been appearing for a while.

Across the CH API it sometimes occurs that fields - especially dates - are null or have odd values. Probably worth adding a quick sanity check on any date / number. See e.g. http://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/null-values-for-values-fields/988

My observations:
Beta doesn’t have a problem with these (this field isn’t used there?).

Here are a few examples of items from filingHistoryList resources where nulls are returned as described in the OP:
(some fields cut for clarity - ‘…’):
One:
{
“links”:
{
“self”: “/company/09232291/filing-history/MzE4MjY1OTYwNGFkaXF6a2N4”,
…
},
“type”: “RP04PSC09”,
“action_date”: null,
“description_values”:
{
“withdrawal_date”: null
},
“description”: “second-filing-withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement”,
…
},

Two:
{
“description_values”: {
“withdrawal_date”: null
},
“links”: {
“self”: “/company/01679488/filing-history/MzE4MjY1NjE2M2FkaXF6a2N4”,
…
},
“type”: “RP04PSC09”,
“action_date”: null,
…
},

Three
{
“description_values”: {
“withdrawal_date”: null
},
“action_date”: null,
“type”: “RP04PSC09”,
“links”: {
“self”: “/company/00675312/filing-history/MzE4MjY2NTMwNmFkaXF6a2N4”,
…
},
…
},

Four:
{
“action_date”: null,
“type”: “RP04PSC09”,
“links”: {
“self”: “/company/05886419/filing-history/MzE4Mjg3NTQ2MGFkaXF6a2N4”,
…
},
“description_values”: {
“withdrawal_date”: null
},
…
},