Bitbucket API v2 returns account object not including username?

[大表正人]

Hi team,

According to the Bitbucket API v2 Reference, /users/[username] returns account object, and account object contains username.

https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/resource/users/%7Busername%7D

and, commit's author, PR's author, PR comment's author, etc contains account object.

https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/resource/repositories/%7Busername%7D/%7Brepo_slug%7D/pullrequests/%7Bpull_request_id%7D

but now these APIs return account object not including username:

$ curl --user [username]:[password] https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/users/[username]
{"display_name": "XXXXXX", "uuid": "{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}", "links": {"hooks": {"href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/users/XXXXXXXXXX/hooks"}, "self": {"href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/users/XXXXXXXXXX"}, "repositories": {"href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/XXXXXXXXXX"}, "html": {"href": "https://bitbucket.org/XXXXXXXXXX/"}, "avatar": {"href": "https://avatar-cdn.atlassian.com/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.png"}, "snippets": {"href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/XXXXXXXXXX"}}, "nickname": "XXXXXX", "created_on": "2018-10-02T01:45:49.883735+00:00", "is_staff": false, "account_status": "active", "type": "user", "account_id": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"}

Is this a bug?

[Stephen Sifers · Accepted solution]

Hello,

It looks as though what you’ve found is part of the GDPR and user privacy notice which impacted how user names are displayed. The change came on the 29th of April 2019. Further information about this may be found at the change notice; Bitbucket Cloud REST APIs are changing to improve user privacy.

I hope this helps to answer your question along with providing the additional information around why/when this change occurred.

Regards,
Stephen Sifers