`GET` to national search follow errors with `405`

[joshuagraber]

From @joshuagraber DM to @maxachis in Discord:

On GET https://data-sources.pdap.dev/api/v3/user/152, I'm not getting back the court/warrant type search that is showing up in the recent_searches response (user follows that as well, if the call to GET /api/v2/search/follow?record_types=Court+Cases,Wanted+Persons is to be believed)

So the call to GET /api/v2/search/follow?record_types=Court+Cases,Wanted+Persons shows the search as followed.

But the call to GET https://data-sources.pdap.dev/api/v3/user/152 does not return the search in followed_searches

[maxachis]

@joshuagraber I'm having trouble replicating this!

After logging in to user 152, I called api/v2/search/follow GET and received the following response:

{
    "data": [],
    "message": "Followed searches found.",
    "metadata": {
        "count": 0
    }
}

This tracks with what I get when I call api/v3/user/152:

"followed_searches": [],

Additionally, GET /api/v2/search/follow is not an endpoint that accepts query parameters, and when I added those in, the results were not changed.

For additional context, the last prod-to-stage migration was at (Nov 9, 2025, 5:53:00 AM), so there hasn't been a recent reset.

[joshuagraber]

Ack! My bad, there was a UI bug that tricked me.

We should be using /api/v2/search/follow?record_types=Court+Cases,Wanted+Persons for this call.

So I made that update. But I'm currently getting an error response on that call: {"message": "The method is not allowed for the requested URL."}

Updated the issue title to reflect this.

[maxachis]

@joshuagraber So I'm still confused! And perhaps this is because I have made an error in the design of my endpoints.

While there are POST and DELETE endpoints for v2/search/follow/national, there is no corresponding GET endpoint. That is instead encapsulated under the v2/search/follow GET endpoint. Perhaps that is not the best design!

Now, when I made a POST request to v2/search/follow/national (as user 152), and then a GET request to v2/search/follow, I do see the result:

{
    "data": [
        {
            "county_name": null,
            "display_name": "United States - All",
            "locality_name": null,
            "location_id": 16056,
            "state_name": null,
            "subscriptions_by_category": {
                "Agency-published Resources": [
                    "Crime Maps & Reports",
                    "Crime Statistics",
                    "Media Bulletins",
                    "Records Request Info",
                    "Resources",
                    "Sex Offender Registry",
                    "Wanted Persons"
                ],
                "Info about Agencies": [
                    "Annual & Monthly Reports",
                    "Budgets & Finances",
                    "Contact Info & Agency Meta",
                    "Geographic",
                    "List of Data Sources",
                    "Policies & Contracts"
                ],
                "Info about Officers": [
                    "Complaints & Misconduct",
                    "Daily Activity Logs",
                    "Training & Hiring Info",
                    "Personnel Records"
                ],
                "Jails & Courts": [
                    "Booking Reports",
                    "Court Cases",
                    "Incarceration Records"
                ],
                "Other": [
                    "Other"
                ],
                "Police & Public Interactions": [
                    "Accident Reports",
                    "Arrest Records",
                    "Calls for Service",
                    "Car GPS",
                    "Citations",
                    "Dispatch Logs",
                    "Dispatch Recordings",
                    "Field Contacts",
                    "Incident Reports",
                    "Misc Police Activity",
                    "Officer Involved Shootings",
                    "Stops",
                    "Surveys",
                    "Use of Force Reports",
                    "Vehicle Pursuits"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "message": "Followed searches found.",
    "metadata": {
        "count": 1
    }

And when I make a GET request to /v2/user/152, I see the following included in the response:

    "followed_searches": [
        {
            "display_name": "United States - All",
            "location_info": {
                "state_name": null,
                "county_name": null,
                "locality_name": null,
                "location_type": "National",
                "location_id": 16056
            },
            "record_types": [
                "Accident Reports",
                "Arrest Records",
                "Calls for Service",
                "Car GPS",
                "Citations",
                "Dispatch Logs",
                "Dispatch Recordings",
                "Field Contacts",
                "Incident Reports",
                "Misc Police Activity",
                "Officer Involved Shootings",
                "Stops",
                "Surveys",
                "Use of Force Reports",
                "Vehicle Pursuits",
                "Complaints & Misconduct",
                "Daily Activity Logs",
                "Training & Hiring Info",
                "Personnel Records",
                "Annual & Monthly Reports",
                "Budgets & Finances",
                "Contact Info & Agency Meta",
                "Geographic",
                "List of Data Sources",
                "Policies & Contracts",
                "Crime Maps & Reports",
                "Crime Statistics",
                "Media Bulletins",
                "Records Request Info",
                "Resources",
                "Sex Offender Registry",
                "Wanted Persons",
                "Booking Reports",
                "Court Cases",
                "Incarceration Records",
                "Other"
            ],
            "record_categories": [
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Police & Public Interactions",
                "Info about Officers",
                "Info about Officers",
                "Info about Officers",
                "Info about Officers",
                "Info about Agencies",
                "Info about Agencies",
                "Info about Agencies",
                "Info about Agencies",
                "Info about Agencies",
                "Info about Agencies",
                "Agency-published Resources",
                "Agency-published Resources",
                "Agency-published Resources",
                "Agency-published Resources",
                "Agency-published Resources",
                "Agency-published Resources",
                "Agency-published Resources",
                "Jails & Courts",
                "Jails & Courts",
                "Jails & Courts",
                "Other"
            ],
            "record_types_by_category": {
                "Police & Public Interactions": "Vehicle Pursuits",
                "Info about Officers": "Personnel Records",
                "Info about Agencies": "Policies & Contracts",
                "Agency-published Resources": "Wanted Persons",
                "Jails & Courts": "Incarceration Records",
                "Other": "Other"
            }
        }

The duplicate record categories is a bug I need to address, but otherwise that is showing up.

Am I missing something you're seeing, @joshuagraber?