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Reasoning for genre ids only and genre id-name pair
posted by xarxerSTAFFMOD on January 6, 2017 at 5:51 AM
Hi, what's the reason for movie search results containing a list of only genre-ids and movie details containing both genre ids and names? I would imagine the data comes from the same database and it would be simple to just include the genre names in the search results as well. Thanks!
Reply by Travis Bell
on January 6, 2017 at 10:58 AM
It's just a design decision that changed 2 years after the original was made. I can't go back and add genre objects in the list results I'm afraid (that would break existing clients) so the easiest thing to do is cache the genre list in your app.