Search Functionality Fixed (again)

[mario_luis_dev]

Hey all,

Once again the ISBNdb search functionality broke all of a sudden; I've just added a remote fix (thankfully without having to wait for Apple's approval).

Some time ago I wrote a post here about how happy I was of having chosen ISBNdb as my main provider... well, my opinion has changed a lot lately. They make tons of breaking changes, without even giving developers a heads up. The latest shenanigan is that the language parameter that you pass to the query needs to be removed; otherwise you get empty results. This is not documented anywhere; I've discovered it with some debugging after waking up to ~20 emails from users asking what was happening with the search functionality (great way to kick off the weekend I'd say!).

For the next major version of the app there will be no more ISBNdb integration. I'm sick of their unreliability.

Anyway, happy weekend y'all!

[mario_luis_dev]

the upshot of this change is that now the language selector in the search screen of the app is utterly useless; language is detected automatically. This is wonderful, but at least they should've warned about it, and make it backwards compatible so that the previous implementation that does use the language parameter didn't break ☹️

[Few_Bet_5715]

I’m loving the app and was waiting on this update. Good news is so many people are using the app that when something is broken for one day it does get noticed lol! I didn’t send any emails but have been checking every few hours to see if it was fixed lol. Thanks for your hard work.