requesting relationship status from the instagram API?

Question

I'm trying to work with the instagram api, and I'm not seeming to understand one of their request call from the relationship endpoint, so here goes,

GET /users/{user-id}/relationship

"Get information about the current user's relationship (follow/following/etc) to another user."

this information comes from this page http://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/relationships/

this is what it returns:

{
    "meta": {
        "code": 200
    }, 
    "data": {
        "outgoing_status": "none", 
        "incoming_status": "requested_by"
    }
}

what i don't understand is if the current user is lets say id 3 and the target user 61

and id 3 does follow id 61

and id 61 deosnt follow 3

what would the instagram api return!! thanks for your help

Answer 1

From the very top of the documentation page you linked to:

• outgoing_status: Your relationship to the user. Can be "follows", "requested", "none".
• incoming_status: A user's relationship to you. Can be "followed_by", "requested_by", "blocked_by_you", "none".

So for your scenario it would be:

"data": {
  "outgoing_status": "follows", 
  "incoming_status": "none"
}