Adding Managers via ftrack_api

[Tim Edelmann]

Hey there, 

 

we are trying to add managers programatically when a corresponding field was altered. We tried this:

project = ftrack.getProject('dev_tutorial')
user = ftrack.User('username')
managerType = ftrack.ManagerType('Supervisor')

# Add the user as a supervisor on the dev_tutorial project.
manager = project.createManager(user, managerType)

(taking a correct project, user and managerType)

..which is described here. But sadly this didn't work. 

 

what do we have to do to create these managers via the new api, since 'Manager' is not a known type?

Generally: it helps a lot going through the migration notes and code-snippets to get hints on how to use the new api, but every now and then, we stumble on something, that can not be found. Is there a  common way to find out usages?

 

 

EDIT: Some addition information:

 

This is the line that crashes: 

manager = project.createManager(userToUse, managerType)

the resulting log gives us:

2018-01-09 10:20:00,404 - ftrack_api.event.hub.EventHub - ERROR - Error calling subscriber <Subscriber metadata={'id': '619a63bab1c443d09f4d982926e36196'} subscription="topic=ftrack.update"> for event <Event {'topic': u'ftrack.update', 'source': {u'applicationId': u'ftrack.client.web', u'user': {u'username': u'TEdelmann', u'id': u'75b59aae-e1bb-11e7-ad88-7ab7a47c9dda'}, u'id': u'b85b77aa-f51d-11e7-92c6-7ab7a47c9dda'}, 'target': u'', 'data': {u'entities': [{u'keys': [u'Briefing_Team_01_TandemProducer_EUsers'], u'objectTypeId': u'show', u'entityType': u'show', u'parents': [{u'entityId': u'108157f2-e3d9-11e7-9067-7ab7a47c9dda', u'entityType': u'show', u'parentId': None}], u'parentId': None, u'action': u'update', u'entityId': u'108157f2-e3d9-11e7-9067-7ab7a47c9dda', u'changes': {u'Briefing_Team_01_TandemProducer_EUsers': {u'new': u'Daniel Brylka', u'old': u'Daniel Schindler'}}}], u'pushToken': u'b91a65ca-f51d-11e7-b15d-7ab7a47c9dda', u'parents': [u'108157f2-e3d9-11e7-9067-7ab7a47c9dda'], u'user': {u'userid': u'75b59aae-e1bb-11e7-ad88-7ab7a47c9dda', u'name': u'Tim Edelmann'}, u'clientToken': u'b85b77aa-f51d-11e7-92c6-7ab7a47c9dda'}, 'in_reply_to_event': None, 'id': u'5e7358c282f448729f42a0d342bdd3d3', 'sent': None}>.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\ftrack_python_api-1.3.3-py2.7.egg\ftrack_api\event\hub.py", line 693, in _handle
    response = subscriber.callback(event)
  File "C:\git\Actions\AttributeChangedHandler.py", line 58, in launch
    manager = project.createManager(userToUse, managerType)
  File "c:\dev\fcp\ftrack-connect-package\.eggs\ftrack_python_legacy_api-3.6.2-py2.7.egg\FTrackCore\api\client.py", line 232, in createManager
    response = xmlServer.action('create', data)
  File "c:\dev\fcp\ftrack-connect-package\.eggs\ftrack_python_legacy_api-3.6.2-py2.7.egg\FTrackCore\api\xmlserver.py", line 300, in action
    response = function(data)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 1243, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 1596, in __request
    allow_none=self.__allow_none)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 1094, in dumps
    data = m.dumps(params)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 638, in dumps
    dump(v, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 660, in __dump
    f(self, value, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 741, in dump_struct
    dump(v, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 660, in __dump
    f(self, value, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 762, in dump_instance
    self.dump_struct(value.__dict__, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 741, in dump_struct
    dump(v, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 660, in __dump
    f(self, value, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 762, in dump_instance
    self.dump_struct(value.__dict__, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 741, in dump_struct
    dump(v, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 660, in __dump
    f(self, value, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 762, in dump_instance
    self.dump_struct(value.__dict__, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 741, in dump_struct
    dump(v, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 660, in __dump
    f(self, value, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 762, in dump_instance
    self.dump_struct(value.__dict__, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 741, in dump_struct
    dump(v, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 660, in __dump
    f(self, value, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 719, in dump_array
    dump(v, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 660, in __dump
    f(self, value, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 762, in dump_instance
    self.dump_struct(value.__dict__, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 741, in dump_struct
    dump(v, write)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 652, in __dump
    raise TypeError, "cannot marshal %s objects" % type(value)
TypeError: cannot marshal <type 'file'> objects

Hope, someone has an idea!?

 

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

Tim

[Tim Edelmann]

found it out myself..

 

The solution was to do this:

manager = project.createManager(ftrack.User(username), ftrack.ManagerType('Assistant Producer'))

with ONLY using the old api!! This is nowhere to be found in the docs (sadly), so it took me 1.5 days

When I try doing this with a user loaded via the new api, its crashing with the above results..

[Mattias Lagergren]

Hi Tim, if you do not get a response here on the community forum you can always contact us through the support chat or by emailing support[at]ftrack.com