AssetBuild Custom Attributes

[ionav]

Hi,

I'm trying to print out custom attributes for an asset build following the example below. However, trying to 

print ab["custom_attrubtes"].items()

gives me a 'custom_attributes' key error. Has something recently changed?

http://ftrack-python-api.rtd.ftrack.com/en/latest/example/custom_attribute.html#example-custom-attribute

Thanks

[tokejepsen]

Hey,

Think there is a typo in your code. Try this;

print ab["custom_attributes"].items()

[ionav]

Hey,

Thanks for getting back to me.  My apologies, there 100% is a typo there. That's what I get for trying to make a minimal example quickly. 

 

The initial problem I was hitting is that when I try and set custom attributes on an asset build, I get the error: "'Custom attributes must be creted explicitly for the given entity type before being set.'"

 

ab["custom_attributes"]['category'] = category

 

I have scripts that have successfully set attributes this way in the past,  hence wondering if something had changed.

Thanks

[tokejepsen]

Have you created the custom attribute on your Ftrack site? "System settings" > "Advanced" > "Custom Attributes"

[ionav]

I have, months ago.  And indeed I have assets published with them already set. 

[Remus Avram]

Which is the category custom attribute type and what are you trying to set to it?

[ionav]

It turns out our problem was caused by our server being upgraded to a version requiring API version 1.0.4 or later, which we weren't using, hence not being able to set custom attributes. 

[Lucas Correia]

Thanks for following up.

For future reference, the server version 3.5 requires ftrack-python-api 1.0.4 or higher. Version 1.0.3 will be unable to use custom attributes properly (what ionav experienced) and versions prior to 1.0.3 will fail to initialise the session with a ServerCompatibilityError. For more information, see the migration notes.

We are still polishing a few things before we will start to roll out ftrack 3.5 to hosted sites and will be in contact before then.