Error when creating attachment for job (new api)

[Tilt]

Hi,

I've tried to follow the example in the api docs on how to add attachments to jobs. However, I'm receiving a weird error. My code:

   job = session.create('Job', {
            'user': user,
            'status': 'running',
            'data': dumps({'description': 'test job'})
   })
   server_location = session.query('Location where name is "ftrack.server"').one()
   component = session.create_component(
                logfile,
                data={'name': 'My FileName'},
                location=server_location
   )
   session.create(
                'JobComponent',
                {'component_id': component['id'], 'job_id': job['id']}
   )

I receive an error in create_component:

LocationError: Failed to register components with location <Location("ftrack.server", 3a372bde-05bc-11e4-8908-20c9d081909b)> due to error:
    Server reported error: PermissionError(Permission denied: not allowed to 'update' 'User'. Missing the required 'Manage users' permission.)
    Transferred component data that may require cleanup: [(<dynamic ftrack FileComponent object 25089360>, 'bdad7a2b-9d64-413d-be37-4a9b3dcf7ad4')]
 

I'm using an API key that doesn't have the "Manage Users" permission. I can grant them but I'm curious as to why this error happens and why creating the component needs user management permissions in the first place.

[Mattias Lagergren]

Hi Tilt, very odd error indeed!

I've ran your code with the following tweaks and it works as expected:

import ftrack_api
import json

session = ftrack_api.Session()
user = session.query('User where username="mattias.lagergren"').first()

logfile = '/path/to/a/file'

job = session.create('Job', {
    'user': user,
    'status': 'running',
    'data': json.dumps({'description': 'test job'})
})
server_location = session.query('Location where name is "ftrack.server"').one()
component = session.create_component(
    logfile,
    data={'name': 'My FileName'},
    location=server_location
)
session.create(
    'JobComponent',
    {'component_id': component['id'], 'job_id': job['id']}
)

I've set my user ("mattias.lagergren") to not having the "Manage user" permission.

Do you do anything else before creating the job? If you could attach a complete standalone example as a python file that would help a lot. Let me know the permissions of the user that runs the script as well as the "user" variable when creating the job .

After some more investigations I was able to reproduce this issue! I will submit a bug report for it and see if we can have it fixed!

A possible workaround is to set the user_id rather than the user on the job:

job = session.create('Job', {
    'user_id': user['id'],
    'status': 'running',
    'data': json.dumps({'description': 'test job'})
})

 

[Tilt]

Thank you!