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GroupEpic uses "iid" as ID attribute but should use "id"? #3261
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My workaround for now:
def get_open_epics(group: Group) -> list[GroupEpic]: """ Get all open epics of a group. """ epics = cast(list[GroupEpic], group.epics.list(get_all=True, state="opened")) # https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab/issues/3261 epics = [get_group(epic.group_id).epics.get(epic.iid) for epic in epics] return epics
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@sscherfke would you like to try out #3279 ?
Hi @JohnVillalovos , sorry for the late reply.
Tried to reproduce the problem with your fixes applied and could not reproduce it. So I think this should work. Thank you very much. :-)
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Hi @JohnVillalovos , sorry for the late reply.
Tried to reproduce the problem with your fixes applied and could not reproduce it. So I think this should work. Thank you very much. :-)
Thanks!
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objects.epics.GroupEpic uses iid (group local ID) as ID attribute / encoded_id instead of the global id like, for example, objects.issues.ProjectIssue does. This leads to an erroneous behavior when updating an epic, i.e., the wrong epic is being updated.
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The class GroupEpic explicitly sets iid as _id_attr. When updating the epic, the request is sent to epic.manager.path/{epic_iid}, but since epic.manager.path is the path to the top level group, the epic with id 3 in this top level group is updated instead of the one from the nested group.
So maybe it's not just using id instead of iid but fixing the manager (path) so that is uses the path of the actual group that the epic belongs to and not the path of the group that was used to retrieve all epics.
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