The add/rm success check never rejected anything: for any non-empty API
response it always reported "Record added"/"Record deleted" and returned
0, so the _err branch was dead code. A valid key looked fine only because
the API call genuinely created the record; an invalid key returning
{"result":"error"} produced the same "Record added" output even though
nothing was created.
Root cause, in:
if [ -n "$response" ]; then
if [ ! "$(echo "$response" | _contains '"result":"success"')" ]; then
- _contains() ignores stdin (it reads only $1 and $2), so the piped
"$response" was discarded.
- The pattern '"result":"success"' was passed as $1 (the haystack),
leaving $2 (the needle) empty, so it ran:
echo '"result":"success"' | grep -- "" >/dev/null 2>&1
grep with an empty pattern always matches.
- That grep output is redirected to /dev/null, so the command
substitution always captured "", making [ ! "" ] always true.
Fix: call _contains "$response" '"result":"success"' directly and branch
on its exit code, so error responses now correctly fail (return 1).
Co-authored-by: neil <github@neilpang.com>