Hubspot object content inconsistencies?

Hi,

After having upgraded to the last version of hubspot3 I find that sometime, when fetching objects from the Hubspot API, i may retrieve dict formatted in different ways regarding objects properties.

Sometimes its the ‘hubspot’ way of formatting object properties:

{'objectId': 47863442,
 'portalId': 5799819,
 'isDeleted': False,
 'objectType': 'PRODUCT',
'properties': {'name': {'value': "My product name",
   'source': 'CRM_UI',
   'sourceId': None,
   'versions': [{'name': 'name',
     'value': "My product name",
     'source': 'CRM_UI',
     'requestId': 'dcb6af03-4c5e-499a-9448-8c689c4f984a',
     'sourceVid': [],
     'timestamp': 1570095121725}],
   'timestamp': 1570095121725},
  'price': {'value': '115',
   'source': 'CRM_UI',
   'sourceId': None,
   'versions': [{'name': 'price',
     'value': '115',
     'source': 'CRM_UI',
     'requestId': 'dcb6af03-4c5e-499a-9448-8c689c4f984a',
     'sourceVid': [],
     'timestamp': 1570095121725}],
   'timestamp': 1570095121725}
}}

and sometimes I only retrieve key / values (not placed under the properties key):

{
    'id': 28612078,
    'name': 'My product name',
    'price': '115',
}

I think that getting a single product will returns to me an hubspot payload while retrieving all the products will return to me prettified products. It seems to be the same thing for most of clients.

I personally prefer the second format that I find more natural for developers. And it could be great to be able to use this format for both input and outputs.

But what I find disturbing is that not all of the clients methods are returning the object information the same way.

What do you think of that?

[jisson]

If we are able to define guidelines and goals on this topic I could help 😃

Letting the choice to the user regarding the outputs / input could be interesting. But I am afraid that it would be complicated to handle if users have to deal with an optional boolean flag each time they call a client.

Maybe prettify_output (and input?) could be given once for all at the instantiation of the clients?

Regarding the outputs, I am currently dealing with those inconstancies in my code by checking the presence of the properties key in the data returned by the library. Not ideal but it simple and it works well.

[jpetrucciani]

Sorry I’ve been a bit stalled on this - I haven’t forgotten! Things have been a bit crazy at work recently.

I should be able to get around to this sometime next week!