C#•15mo ago

❔ How do I implement this property?

I'm trying to use a C# Notion API wrapper, I've got my code working but for the love of god I cannot figure out how to implement this RichText property. It's an IEnumerable so I thought this would work but I got a 400 bad request from the API so I don't think this is how the authors meant for it to be used. Could someone take a quick look at the GitHub and help me understand? Tysm ❤️

RichText = new List<RichTextBaseInput>() { new RichTextBaseInput()
{
    PlainText = "shouldn't this work?"
} },

RichText = new List<RichTextBaseInput>() { new RichTextBaseInput()
{
    PlainText = "shouldn't this work?"
} },

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JakenVeina•15mo ago

what endpoint is giving you a 400? what is the response? where is that endpoint documented? what's the JSON that you end up sending?

burnOP•15mo ago

it's just a standard 400 API response because the json was formatted incorreclty since idk how to properly use this RichText property

JakenVeina•15mo ago

what makes you say that?

burnOP•15mo ago

because the API request worked just fine when the new List<RichTextBaseInput>() was uninitialized and empty, but the text didn't actually update to anything since there was no value. I just need someone with C# experience to tell me how to implement that property properly, unfortunately there is no documentation cause it's supposed to be a rather simple library

burnOP•15mo ago

check my stackoverflow question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77147203/how-to-implement-the-richtext-field-in-this-simple-c-sharp-library

Stack Overflow

How to implement the RichText field in this simple C# library

I'm trying to use the C# Notion API library but I feel really dumb right now. I'm updating a ToDo block which I have done successfully with this code ToDoUpdateBlock requestParams = new ToDoUpdate...

JakenVeina•15mo ago

I just need someone with C# experience

problem 1: this doesn't really have anything to do with C#

burnOP•15mo ago

I wish I had more experience in c# :/ but mainly a python guy

JakenVeina•15mo ago

you have an HTTP request that's returning an error stop dodging around the problem and WORK the problem look at the response

burnOP•15mo ago

bro u do not understand the problem

JakenVeina•15mo ago

and look at the request then explain it better you say the request is incorrectly formatted

burnOP•15mo ago

the HTTP error is BECAUSE I don't understand how to implement this property since they made it a weird IEnumerable variable

JakenVeina•15mo ago

how so? what is the format that is expected? what is the format that's actually getting sent?

burnOP•15mo ago

https://github.com/notion-dotnet/notion-sdk-net/issues/385

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Why is the RichText property an IEnumerable? How am I supposed to i...

I'm trying to update a To-do block and I've done so successfully but I'm struggling to assign RichText an actual value and understand the code/why the RichText property is an IEnumerabl...

burnOP•15mo ago

if you refuse to read any of the resources I link you idk what to say @jakenveina

JakenVeina•15mo ago

they all say the same thing that your post started with they all yield the same question what is the error being returned by the API if you're confident that the request is malformed, let's LOOK at it and then tell me how that's wrong and I can tell you how the code that you wrote isn't generating what you expect, and what the proper code would be as it stands, I don't know what your end result is supposed to be ergo, I have no way to tell you how to get there

burnOP•15mo ago

the error being returned by the API is a bad format BECAUSE I don't know how the authors intended for this public IEnumerable<RichTextBaseInput> RichText { get; set; } property to be used

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JakenVeina•15mo ago

okay neither do I

burnOP•15mo ago

ok then why are you here? LMFAO

JakenVeina•15mo ago

what is the "bad format" what would be a "correct format"

burnOP•15mo ago

I need someoen with c# experience who can read that link and tell me how it's meant to be implemented.

JakenVeina•15mo ago

right the interpretation is "there's not enough info here"

burnOP•15mo ago

Ok, well considering the other 140 people who starred the library and used all these classes without any docs the source code should be enough information, but I can't understanad this one property hence this question

JakenVeina•15mo ago

great what don't you understand about it?

burnOP•15mo ago

NotionClient.Blocks.UpdateAsync(blockID, requestParams); this is the function I'm calling. It works when I create a ToDoUpdateBlock object like this and intialize it's property with an EMPTY List<RichTextBaseInput>. I can change a checkbox from not checked to checked, great. But I'm also trying to change the text of the checkbox [Rich text] (https://developers.notion.com/reference/rich-text) as referenced by the API here

ToDoUpdateBlock requestParams = new ToDoUpdateBlock()
{
    ToDo = new ToDoUpdateBlock.Info()
    {
        RichText = new List<RichTextBaseInput>(),
        IsChecked = true
    }
};

ToDoUpdateBlock requestParams = new ToDoUpdateBlock()
{
    ToDo = new ToDoUpdateBlock.Info()
    {
        RichText = new List<RichTextBaseInput>(),
        IsChecked = true
    }
};

So how do I set this value of RichText so I can change the text of the checkbox as well, not just the IsChecked

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JakenVeina•15mo ago

you're setting it just fine

burnOP•15mo ago

It's empty. When I run my code the checkbox goes from not checked to check but the actual text beside it doesn't change.

burnOP•15mo ago

JakenVeina•15mo ago

right, cause you set RichText to an empty list

burnOP•15mo ago

yes, hence my question. When I set RichText to an actual list like

    RichText = new List<RichTextBaseInput>() { new RichTextBaseInput()
    {
        PlainText = "shouldn't this work?"
    }},

    RichText = new List<RichTextBaseInput>() { new RichTextBaseInput()
    {
        PlainText = "shouldn't this work?"
    }},

JakenVeina•15mo ago

yup

burnOP•15mo ago

I get the API error malformed request

JakenVeina•15mo ago

and you're assuming that the reason for that error is that you're misusing C# somehow you're not so, we circle back to my original question: what does the actual response say

burnOP•15mo ago

so it comes down to how do I set this property properly like the authors intended? I don't understand why they even made it an IEnumerable when it makes more sense to make it a normal property

JakenVeina•15mo ago

it is a normal property

burnOP•15mo ago

Just a 400 Bad request, malformed response content. Nothing specific.

JakenVeina•15mo ago

what does that content look like? just a flat string?

burnOP•15mo ago

this is the most info I get from the request/response. their libraries logging is really dumb it doesn't show u the actual json being sent in the request body

JakenVeina•15mo ago

you should pull up something like Wireshark and look at it directly then

burnOP•15mo ago

i probably shouldnt have given u my api key but whatever

JakenVeina•15mo ago

indeed

burnOP•15mo ago

could you take a look (https://github.com/notion-dotnet/notion-sdk-net/blob/18d3dabba75fa1a1ac72ad0ddca07fd76b5169b2/Src/Notion.Client/Api/Blocks/RequestParams/BlocksUpdateParameters/UpdateBlocks/ToDoUpdateBlock.cs#L14) [at this line]?

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JakenVeina•15mo ago

as if I haven't already what about it?

burnOP•15mo ago

I just don't understand. IEnumerable<RichTextBaseInput> is the type for the property but then when I pass in a list of RichTextBaseInput it doesn't work?? Like

JakenVeina•15mo ago

yeah, that's very interesting that's why I'd like to see what the error actually is or some documentation for the endpoint

burnOP•15mo ago

ok ill download wireshark and intercept it

JakenVeina•15mo ago

I wonder if there's a VS plugin that could make it a little easier....

burnOP•15mo ago

https://developers.notion.com/reference/update-a-block

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burnOP•15mo ago

thats the endpoint rich_text in the docs is a list so it makes me wonder

JakenVeina•15mo ago

right that matches the RichText property being modeled as IEnumerable<T> in C#

burnOP•15mo ago

yep

JakenVeina•15mo ago

BTW

JakenVeina•15mo ago

https://github.com/notion-dotnet/notion-sdk-net/blob/18d3dabba75fa1a1ac72ad0ddca07fd76b5169b2/Test/Notion.UnitTests/BlocksClientTests.cs#L169

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JakenVeina•15mo ago

so, I think the issue is that you're using RichTextBaseInput

burnOP•15mo ago

holy shit

JakenVeina•15mo ago

which probably doesn't inculde the "type" property because that's for the subclasses to define

burnOP•15mo ago

how tf did u find that i swear i looked eveywhere for exampels u fucking legend i love you

JakenVeina•15mo ago

all I did was search for ToDoUpdateBlock in the codebase

burnOP•15mo ago

let me delete that github issue so i dont look like a fucking idiot

JakenVeina•15mo ago

there's only 2 places it pops up

burnOP•15mo ago

wow your right I looked at the class definition but somehow didnt see that second result

JakenVeina•15mo ago

so, there are multiple types of rich text inputs you can give all of which inherit from RichTextBaseInput RichTextTextInput RichTextEquationInput RichTextMentionInput

burnOP•15mo ago

thank you it worked i take back everything i said about you

JakenVeina•15mo ago

I definitely recommend continuing to grab Wireshark and looking at that request

burnOP•15mo ago

yea I should've done that first instead of making a stackoverflow question, github issue, and posting on 4 different discords

JakenVeina•15mo ago

that definitely ought to be an easier thing to do in .NET development, but the issue would have been obvious if you had been able to lay eyes on the JSON being sent, at any point

Accord•15mo ago

Looks like nothing has happened here. I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.

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