Activity Summary Map Broken

[Brandon White]

Deserializing Strava activity data suddenly stopped working in my app yesterday. It seems that Strava started returning null for empty map data instead of an empty polyline. Please give us a heads up before making these changes. This change broke my application for several users and now I have to wait on Apple and Google to approve a new release version to fix it for them.

Thanks,

Brandon White 

[Michael Morse]

I was wondering if it was something on my end but I noticed the same issue. I had to include an additional error handling for null values. Glad to know it was just an issue on our end!

[Art Rybalko]

IFTTT triggers were also affected when the maps started returning null, and that did not pass our schema validation. We had to make a hotfix to account for null values instead of empty strings.

[MC]

Hi all, 

This was an unintended change to the API as a result of some work that was being done. The team is currently looking into this and will keep you posted/be sure to update the changelog if the update persists. Want to note that this update only applies to those activities without GPS. 

Apologies for the inconvenience. 

- MC | Strava API Team

[Michael Harrod]

We had some user reports of activities failing to synchronise with our system around 21 September, likely without GPS data.

When I checked getActivityById() on 27 September, it looked like we were still getting null values for map. Today, it seems like we are getting blank strings for poly line, which I understand is the previous behaviour and less disruptive for current users of the API.

What confuses me is that our system should  handle a value of null for map, yet we still had some synchronisation problems around 21 September. What I wanted to check here is, was there a period on or after 21 Sep where webhook subscriptions or calls to getActivityById() were disrupted in some other way that might have impacted our ability to sync activities? Unfortunately I don't have detailed logging on our side for the days in question.

Thanks,

Michael