Jon’s Comments (group member since May 06, 2013)

Jon’s comments from the Goodreads Developers group.

Nope, not planning to remove urls or anything else. Hope that will work for you!

Unfortunately, there are no longer individual ids. The combination of all the data in the notification (the user ids, the message, etc.) should be unique, so could you make an md5 signature or similar out of that?

Hi Peter,

You're right - we're changing the way we store notifications, and one side effect is that notifications don't have unique ids anymore. You'll only be able to retrieve the total list of notifications by user, not individual notifications.

We put in a dummy placeholder of "1" because we saw at least one client failed when it was expecting to see an id field.

Is this a problem for your application, and if so, could you explain how?

Thanks
Jon