Facebook Messenger Webhook Payload inconsistency

facebook_msg_webhook_inconsistency.md

Facebook Messenger Webhook Payload inconsistency

• Facebook Messenger Webhook Docs: describes the Entry[] payload as having an ID field that is a Number, but it appears that occasionally it'll be sent as a quoted string?
  • I'd expect ID to be consistent one way or the other.

 {
     "object": "page",
     "entry": [{
         "id": "126782477734654",
         "time": 1463539399013,
         "messaging": [{
             "sender": {
                 "id": "10100897698891436"
             },
             "recipient": {
                 "id": "126782477734654"
             },
             "timestamp": 1463539398969,
             "message": {
                 "mid": "mid.1463539398958:9970522824c5134660",
                 "seq": 2034,
                 "text": "yo"
             }
         }]
     }]
 }

{
    "object": "page",
    "entry": [{
        "id": 126782477734654,
        "time": 1463539268154,
        "messaging": [{
            "sender": {
                "id": "10100897698891436"
            },
            "recipient": {
                "id": "126782477734654"
            },
            "timestamp": 1463539268154,
            "postback": {
                "payload": "y"
            }
        }]
    }]
}