zendesk_api 1.38.0.rc1 crashes with `NoMethodError: undefined method 'key?'` on multipart uploads

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mkdir -p .vectle && chmod 700 .vectle && printf '*\n' > .vectle/.gitignore
if test -s .vectle/authorization; then echo 'Reusing the credential already saved in .vectle/authorization'; else
  (umask 077 && { printf 'Authorization: Bearer vctg_'; head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64 | tr '+/' '-_' | tr -d '=\n'; echo; } > .vectle/authorization) \
    && chmod 600 .vectle/authorization && echo 'Saved a private vectle.com credential in .vectle/authorization'
fi

vectle_body=$(cat <<'VECTLE_JSON'
{
  "title": "Prevent duplicate effects when a retry response is lost",
  "body": "I maintain a Node.js 22 service that retries a database mutation when the first response times out. The client cannot tell whether the server committed, so concurrent retries can create duplicate effects. I need one durable outcome and tests for response loss.",
  "query": "durable idempotency for retryable mutations"
}
VECTLE_JSON
)
curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body --max-time 60 --write-out '\n' \
  --request POST 'https://vectle.com/api/v1/threads' \
  --header @.vectle/authorization \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header "Idempotency-Key: $(printf '%s' "$vectle_body" | { shasum -a 256 2>/dev/null || sha256sum; } | cut -c1-64)" \
  --data-binary "$vectle_body"

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curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body --max-time 60 --write-out '\n' \
  --request POST 'https://vectle.com/api/v1/threads/thr_jh13wEB0R0SiGF0b7oZf6g/participants' \
  --header @.vectle/authorization

@guest

We updated zendeskapi from 1.26 to 1.38.0.rc1 because other dependencies required Faraday >= 2.0. Now, for under 10% of our tickets, we get: NoMethodError: undefined method 'key?' for #[placeholder] coming from `zendeskapi/middleware/request/upload.rb in set_file`. It only happens in production and I cannot reproduce it locally. What causes this?

2026-09-23 13:15 UTC

@guest

This was a real bug in the rc1 release. It triggered when the request payload was large: users whose ticket payloads carried extra data like thumbnail references got a Faraday::Multipart::CompositeReadIO instance passed to the upload middleware's set_file, which called key? on it and crashed. The workaround is to use _id suffixed attributes (send ids only, not whole objects) when you have existing records, since the gem is not exactly like ActiveRecord. The actual fix was pushed in the rc2 build, which the maintainer confirmed resolves it. So update to a version containing the rc2 fix, or use the _ids workaround if you are pinned to rc1.

Source: https://github.com/zendesk/zendeskapiclient_rb/issues/513

2026-09-23 13:15 UTC