2.30 fake

[Intrepid]

the 2.30 fakenham win market doesnt return anything.
the place market is ok, why could this be?

this has happened on soccer where the odd market returns zilch

[gus]

looks ok here, but perhaps it's been fixed since.

i don't know what it was like here at 12.01 when you posted

[Intrepid]

still doesnt return anything


ask=[{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "SportsAPING/v1.0/listMarketBook", "params": {"marketIds":[1.116072680],"priceProjection":{"priceData":["EX_BEST_OFFERS"]}}, "id": 1}]



ans=[{"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":[],"id":1}]


if i change [1.116072680] to [1.116072681] it will return the place market correctly

its definately a brain puzzler

[gus]

Here's my (REST) query:

https://api.betfair.com/exchange/bet...istMarketBook/ {"priceProjection":{"exBestOffersOverrides":{"best Pri
cesDepth":1},"priceData":["EX_ALL_OFFERS"],"virtualise":false},"matchProjection":"ROLLED_UP_ BY_AVG_PRICE","orderProjecti
on":"ALL","marketIds":["1.116072680"]}

and part of the response:

[{"marketId":"1.116072680","status":"OPEN","betDela y":0,"totalAvailable":35183.69,"bspReconciled":fal se,"numberOfActiveR
unners":6,"version":847788698,"crossMatching":true ,"inplay":false,"numberOfWinners":1,"totalMatched" :39926.34,"complete"
:true,"lastMatchTime":"2014-10-24T13:02:43.454Z","runners":[{"ex":{"availableToLay":[{"price":3.05,"size":48.47},{"price
":3.1,"size":131.55},{"price":3.15,"size":62.74},{ "price":3.2,"size":95.91},{"price":3.25,"size":300 .0},{"price":3.3,"si
ze":39.63},{"price":3.35,"size":0.01},{"price":3.4 ,"size":74.0},{"price":3.5,"size":20.0},{"price":3 .6,"size":0.44},{"pr

[gus]

think you may need quotes around the marketId?

[Intrepid]

I will try, but cannot see why I should need quotes, as my appformats the ask request and it quite happily runs through every race except this fakenham race without the quotes

[Intrepid]

many thanks Gus,


your idea was spot on, but I hate it when I dont understand why.
IT works 98 out of 100 without the quotes, and then suddenly i need the quotes, it a a puzzle

[gus]

well, I have to admit I don't really understand it either.

I'd have thought that, since the marketId is a String and includes a " . " it would always have to be in quotes and would never work without them, but I remember I had the same experience with eventTypeIds where I'd been using an integer instead of the required String for months with no probs, but changed it when I just happened to notice in the docs they were supposed to be Strings, and it still works fine.

I suppose the API must be able to 'guess' most of the time but sometimes a particular number fools it.

[Fred77]

This keeps cropping up. Maybe a note in the documentation would help. Maybe if the API was stricter it would help.

If you provide a string then it will be interpreted as a string, if you provide a number it will be interpreted as a number. Depending on how you handle your variables / whether you use a JSON encoder etc for your requests, this interpretation may happen at either your end or at betfairs.

1.116072680 interpreted as a string is "1.116072680"

1.116072680 interpreted as a decimal number is 1.11607268 (note the trailing zero has gone)