API yields null as values for startDate in LegislativeTerm objects.

[grindhold]

In here, you can find two (maybe more) legislative term objects that have NULL as value for their startDate fields.

https://api.kleineanfragen.de/oparl/v1/bodies

https://api.kleineanfragen.de/oparl/v1/body/sl/term/15
https://api.kleineanfragen.de/oparl/v1/body/sl/term/14

[robbi5]

Yep, those are currently set manually. It's a bit complicated to find out the real dates when legislative terms begin, but I'll try to add the missing ones in the next few days.

[grindhold]

Ah okay, i can imagine digging for such dates to be bothersome. It's okay for an OParl-endpoint to have missing data at some points, but then the whole key-value-pair should be skipped.

Citation from the spec [german]:

JSON erlaubt es grundsätzlich, Eigenschaften mit dem Wert null zu versehen. Eigenschaften sollten nicht mit dem Wert null ausgegeben werden, wenn zu einer Eigenschaft keine Daten vorliegen. Obligatorische Eigenschaften dürfen nicht den Wert null haben.

[grindhold]

thanks 👍