[OSM-dev] 0.5 API: /api/0.5/user/preferences, values truncated to 256 chars

[Tom Hughes]

Andy Allan wrote:

> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/rails_port_branches/api06/app/controllers/user_preference_controller.rb?rev=12071#L80
> 
> The update method drops all existing prefs (#L85) and has the 150
> limit. The update_one method seems more useful, and doesn't have a
> limit, as far as I can see.

Indeed - in fact can anybody give an example of when the update_all 
method would be useful, given that it drops all existing prefs? In fact 
if that is exposed via a route then I would say we should remove it 
immediately as it is clearly exceedingly dangerous.

Tom

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