Breaking change in Leads API response

In the source_name format of the Leads response object, the empty string of "" will become "Manually created" for these four endpoints:

• GET /leads
• GET /lead/{id}
• POST /leads
• PATCH /leads/{id}

Due to this change, one more item will be added to the GET /leadSources response: {name: "Manually created"} . The additional response item essentially is not a breaking change, but you might want to look into this in case your code checks the responses in a more strict way.

What is going to change?

Until now, it was not possible to filter manually created leads specifically, because the source_name was an empty string. After adding an actual value to the source_name, it will be possible to filter manually created leads using this value.

Who is affected?

Anyone with functionality built on top of the previous behavior will need to alter their code.

Published on May 6, 2021