cancelOrders returns success and error-code

[austrianChristian]

Hi,

I tried to delete all bets on the account with not setting any parameters. I used the classes provided by the example source code and added what was needed to cancel bets.

Calling: SportsAPING/v1.0/cancelOrders
With args: {"marketId":null,"instructions":null,"customerRef" :null}

Got Response: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":{"status":"SUCCESS","err orCode":"ERROR_IN_MATCHER","instructionReports":[]},"id":1}

The bets got deleted as I wished but why I get the ERROR_IN_MATCHER error code, which means "The matcher is not healthy", if this is an allowed action.

[austrianChristian]

If I delete the quotes for a specific market, the quotes on that market will be deleted, but again I get the same error code plus in the InstructionReport I get success too and again an error-code "INVALID_BET_SIZE".

Calling: SportsAPING/v1.0/cancelOrders
With args: {"marketId":"1.110812726","instructions":null,"cus tomerRef":null}

Got Response: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":{"status":"SUCCESS","err orCode":"ERROR_IN_MATCHER","marketId":"1.110812726 ","instructionReports":[{"status":"SUCCESS","errorCode":"INVALID_BET_SIZE" ,"instruction":{"betId":"29694812996"},"sizeCancel led":500.0},{"status":"SUCCESS","errorCode":"INVAL ID_BET_SIZE","instruction":{"betId":"29694812993"} ,"sizeCancelled":300.0}]},"id":1}

[WillanJ]

Has this issue been addressed anywhere?

I am also seeing what the user above reported. Bets get cancelled ok with status "SUCCESS" but errorCode "ERROR_IN_MATCHER" and on individual instructions status "SUCCESS" and errorCode "INVALID_BET_SIZE" (and cancelledDate returning as 01/01/0001 00:00:00).

It doesn't hugely concern me as everything seems to be working ok, but just wondering if those errorcodes are indicative of me doing something slightly wrong and just getting away with it.

[Merlin]

This is a feature, not a bug :-) As long as the status says 'SUCCESS', there's no need to check the error code. I would guess 'ERROR_IN_MATCHER' is the default error; if there WAS no error, it would be a waste of time for betfair to change this to something like 'OK' as it would slow the call down and provide no further information. So check the status first; only if this has a value other than 'SUCCESS' do you need to check 'errorString' (and your code will be slightly faster)

Merlin