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Invalid iso_639_1
posted by norkunasSTAFFMOD on June 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
In many movies api returns:
{
"id": 780966,
"release_dates": {
"results": [
{
"iso_3166_1": "BR",
"release_dates": [
{
"certification": "",
"descriptors": [],
"iso_639_1": "{\"folded_name\"=>\"Portuguese\", \"english_name\"=>\"Portuguese\", \"iso_639_1\"=>\"pt\", \"native_name\"=>\"Portuguese\"}",
"note": "",
"release_date": "2020-11-19T00:00:00.000Z",
"type": 1
}
]
}
]
}
}
What's the reason for this?
Reply by superboy97
on June 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
There have been a bug, a long time ago, causing this to be stored in the field instead of the correct language code.
When you encounter such values, feel free to edit the release date and fix the value.
I have fixed this one.
Note : The field should be empty, except for countries with multiple official languages, like Switzerland and Canada, for example.