From 8a6e6b4d77dfc16653116496d5835f9ac06a9566 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lex Berezhny <lex@damoti.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:08:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add category attribute in JSON RPC output for backwards
 compatibility

---
 lbrynet/daemon/json_response_encoder.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lbrynet/daemon/json_response_encoder.py b/lbrynet/daemon/json_response_encoder.py
index b9cb76ab1..8942ccc89 100644
--- a/lbrynet/daemon/json_response_encoder.py
+++ b/lbrynet/daemon/json_response_encoder.py
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ class JSONResponseEncoder(JSONEncoder):
             else:
                 output['type'] = 'basic'
 
+            # deprecated, will be removed after 0.30 release
+            output['category'] = output['type']
+
         return output
 
     def encode_input(self, txi):