Podcast API issues

[felix-hilden]

Hello, firstly thank you for releasing the podcast API! There are some issues with the newly released endpoints. Issues found on 2020-03-23.

• ✔️ The resume point object has resume_position_ms instead of the documented last_position_ms. For example: episodes/4SgOTqHfk56yqrTjXjWCNM, market "FI" from token with all scopes.
• Show episodes can be missing from the response. shows/id and shows/id/episodes return them, but e.g. shows/?ids=0Lsi13D8nWRkwbEkfNeItS&market=FI doesn't work. Using an app token for this one.
• It seems that the additional_types update for playlists is not described in the article, unlike the player changes. This is doubly confusing because podcasts can't be added to a playlist at least in the desktop application (apparently the mobile client can) and other playlist endpoints don't mention episodes in any way.
• Episode search returns null items in the paging object. E.g. search?q=piano&type=episode&limit=50.
• ✔️ At least for me, when playing a podcast, my currently playing item and context is null even though I've specified additional_types=track,episode.

I'll update this post if more issues arise. And if others have found anything, feel free to add them here. And do let me know if I've misunderstood something.

[felix-hilden]

An update: the resume point name issue seems to be fixed in documentation. I couldn't reproduce the episode search null issue anymore. And now my playback status correctly returns episodes when playing on a playlist.

However.

• Playback context can be "show" as well. Not sure if this is intended when specifying the additional types as track+episode. Minor thing, more like a documentation issue.
• Episodes in playlists are not returned as Episode objects if additional_types was not specified. Instead they contain track-like fields. I now see that as documented, it defaults to only tracks.