How can find out whether market has Persistence?

[Guest]

Is there a way I can find out whether a market is Persistent? Currently i can place a bet and set Persistence True however if the market doesn't allow it then it just returns False which is fine. However I would prefer to know prior.

[jabe]

Does it just depend on whether in-play betting will be allowed?

[LiamP]

There is a bool called persistenceEnabled in the marketCatalogue description also available in the streaming marketDefinition

https://docs.developer.betfair.com/d...ketDescription

[Guest]

Oh Thanks LiamP I thought I had seen it somewhere before and perfect I can use this .

then re-read through MarketDefinition and noted MarketTime and though Oh! I currently use MarketStartTime ie

myBot.MarketCatalog(x).MarketStartTime

However I am wondering whether I should be using MarketTime

myBot.MarketCatalog(x).Description.MarketTime


Q1) Liam if a racing event is delayed in start then are both variables MarketStartTime and MarketTime updated?

Q2) Which Start time should I be using?



I then compared my MarketDefinition class (taken from here 6 years ago https://github.com/betfair/API-NG-sa...Description.cs) against the current class and noted the additional 3 members:

lineRangeInfo	MarketLineRangeInfo		Line range info for line markets
raceType	String		An external identifier of a race type
priceLadderDescription	PriceLadderDescription		Details about the price ladder in use for this market.

Will add these to my class but not sure I will need to use them, however my question ...

Q3) is there a location where the sample code for C# (or VB) is updated when changes to the API are made?

[LiamP]

My understanding is that the fields are the same, drives me mad why for some reason they named lots of fields differently in streaming!

1) If racing is delayed betfair will not update the times (betdaq does sometimes) they may tell you through the race api.

2) Should be the same

3) No idea for c#, I think they try and keep the github repos up to date, I use this forum (announcements), email and the api docs updates to keep betfairlightweight up to date.