diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/controllers/ApiController.php b/airtime_mvc/application/controllers/ApiController.php
index 2a8a3ad75..342d5c69f 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/controllers/ApiController.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/controllers/ApiController.php
@@ -543,15 +543,15 @@ class ApiController extends Zend_Controller_Action
     public function reloadMetadataGroupAction()
     {
         $request = $this->getRequest();
-        //extract all file metadata params from the request.
-        //The value is a json encoded hash that has all the information related to this action
-        //The key does not have any meaning as of yet but it could potentially correspond
-        //to some unique id.
+        // extract all file metadata params from the request.
+        // The value is a json encoded hash that has all the information related to this action
+        // The key does not have any meaning as of yet but it could potentially correspond
+        // to some unique id.
         $responses = array();
         foreach ($request->getParams() as $k => $raw_json) {
             $info_json = json_decode($raw_json, $assoc=true);
             $mode = $info_json['mode'];
-            unset($info_json['mode']);
+            unset( $info_json['mode'] );
             // TODO : uncomment the following line to actually do something
             // array_push($responses, $this->dispatchMetaDataAction($info_json, $info_json['mode']));
             // Like wise, remove the following line when done
diff --git a/python_apps/api_clients/api_client.py b/python_apps/api_clients/api_client.py
index 3e53f2d32..1cc1e26cc 100644
--- a/python_apps/api_clients/api_client.py
+++ b/python_apps/api_clients/api_client.py
@@ -365,7 +365,6 @@ class AirTimeApiClient():
 
     def send_media_monitor_requests(self, action_list, is_record=False):
         logger = self.logger
-        response = None
         try:
             url = self.construct_url('reload_metadata_group')
             # We are assuming that action_list is a list of dictionaries such
@@ -402,11 +401,11 @@ class AirTimeApiClient():
                 response = self.get_response_from_server(url)
                 response = json.loads(response)
                 logger.info("associate recorded %s", response)
+            return response
         except Exception, e:
-            response = None
             logger.error('Exception: %s', e)
             logger.error("traceback: %s", traceback.format_exc())
-        return response
+            raise
 
     #returns a list of all db files for a given directory in JSON format:
     #{"files":["path/to/file1", "path/to/file2"]}