https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Current-Playback-API-progress-ms-integer-or-string/m-p/5001107#M761 <P data-unlink="true">The web API supports getting information about the user's current playback state. The <A href="https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/player/get-information-about-the-users-current-playback/" target="_self">docs for this endpoint</A> &nbsp;detail the "progress_ms". This property contains the "<SPAN>Progress into the currently playing track" and is specified to be an integer. However, in the example JSON the property's value is of type string:</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="javascript">{ "progress_ms": "44272" }</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P data-unlink="true">&nbsp;</P><P>Is this example incorrect, is the documentation incorrect, or something else? I know that some other APIs use strings to represent large numbers because of&nbsp;<A href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Number/MAX_SAFE_INTEGER" target="_self">Javascript limitations</A>.</P> Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:28:39 GMT MIGreenberg 2020-07-19T17:28:39Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Current-Playback-API-progress-ms-integer-or-string/m-p/5001107#M761 <P data-unlink="true">The web API supports getting information about the user's current playback state. The <A href="https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/player/get-information-about-the-users-current-playback/" target="_self">docs for this endpoint</A> &nbsp;detail the "progress_ms". This property contains the "<SPAN>Progress into the currently playing track" and is specified to be an integer. However, in the example JSON the property's value is of type string:</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="javascript">{ "progress_ms": "44272" }</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P data-unlink="true">&nbsp;</P><P>Is this example incorrect, is the documentation incorrect, or something else? I know that some other APIs use strings to represent large numbers because of&nbsp;<A href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Number/MAX_SAFE_INTEGER" target="_self">Javascript limitations</A>.</P> Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:28:39 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Current-Playback-API-progress-ms-integer-or-string/m-p/5001107#M761 MIGreenberg 2020-07-19T17:28:39Z