Betfair new suspended alert - suspension reason now shown

[jamesedwards]

I see that Betfair's badly designed new 'suspended' alert does come with the benefit of a reason for market suspension.

Is this info that could feed through into Bet Angel in the future?

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[Dallas]

If they make it available on the API there's no reason why not

[Euler]

It wasn't very accurate on the football today.

[ShaunWhite]

An api change without prior warning to the dev community is unacceptable.

MarketBook :

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[SpikeyBob]

I think we need a government petition to make these red again, the black is just not doing it for me at all.

[napshnap]

An api change without prior warning to the dev community is unacceptable.

MarketBook :
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It sure is. At least this shouldn't disrupt a workflow (cause it's an addition to data in a response). Imagine if they changed "status" data - that would be a disaster.

[Euler]

They have a habit of doing this.

[ShaunWhite]

An api change without prior warning to the dev community is unacceptable.

MarketBook :
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It sure is. At least this shouldn't disrupt a workflow (cause it's an addition to data in a response). Imagine if they changed "status" data - that would be a disaster.

It's a pita for me because my SQL db schema needs to change to store it, I don't save the raw json.
But yeah unless there's a use for it then that's not strictly necessary, I just prefer to keep the feed and my db in line with each other.

The other issue is that change always involves risk, without a heads up then you wouldn't give it some extra attention for a few days to make sure nothing has been broken accidentally.

[jamesedwards]

An api change without prior warning to the dev community is unacceptable.

MarketBook :
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API change announced this afternoon on the dev forum.

https://forum.developer.betfair.com/for ... pendreason

Last week, a new feature was enabled around market suspension, which includes a new field at the market status level.

This optional suspendReason field is returned only for specific types of market suspension.

On the Exchange Stream API, the new field release will be rolled out to all users by the end of August.

This feature is enabled for Football currently and available for the following suspension reasons: Goal, Scout Unavailable, Penalty, Red Card, Non In Play Market.

The Betfair Exchange API returns the field in listMarketBook and listRunnerBook operations, as follows:

"result": [
{
"marketId": "1.183825651",
"isMarketDataDelayed": false,
"status": "SUSPENDED",
"suspendReason": " Red Card",
"betDelay": 0,
"bspReconciled": false,

The Exchange Stream API will return the suspendReason field as part of the Market Subscription update message included as MarketDefinition.suspendReason.The updated Swagger schema is available via https://github.com/betfair/stream-ap...gerSchema.json

Betfair Developer Program

[Euler]

We should be able to integrate this into the next build.

[jamesedwards]

We should be able to integrate this into the next build.

Good news!