Moving a Project card results in HTTP422UnprocessableEntityError about ghapi HOT 11 CLOSED

BTW - Please feel free to tag me in issues from now on for some reason this didn't get on my radar. Looking into this now.

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Do you mind sharing the full code that created this error?

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Sure - though it is just the one-liner.

Given a card, for example this one:

https://github.com/orgs/jupyterhub/projects/1#card-15417167

with a card ID of 15417167

running this:

api.projects.move_card(15417167, 0)

results in HTTP422UnprocessableEntityError: HTTP Error 422: Unprocessable Entity

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friendly ping for @hamelsmu in case he isn't watching this repo :-)

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Sorry about that! Thanks for the reminder! This is currently on my backlog will try to get to this by next week hopefully

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No worries - in case this is helpful, I'd basically like to make this function work :-)

def sort_cards(column_id, labels, api):
    """Sort the cards in a GitHub Project column based on a list of labels.
    
    Note: cards that do not directly point to a GitHub issue will be treated
    like cards with issues that do not have one of the specified labels.
    
    Parameters
    ----------
    column_id: int
        The unique ID of the column you'd like to sort
    labels: list of strings
        A list of strings to use in sorting your cards. The cards will be sorted
        such that cards with first item of `labels` will come first.
    """
    if api is None:
        api = GhApi()
    cards = api.projects.list_cards(column['id'])
    for card in cards:
        # If the card points to an issue, grab its list of labels
        if "content_url" not in card:
            continue
        _, org, repo, _, num = card['content_url'].rsplit('/', 4)
        issue_labels = api.issues.list_labels_on_issue(org, repo, num)
        
        # Loop in reverse so that the first items in `labels` end up at the top
        for label in labels[::-1]:
            if any(label in ii['name'] for ii in issue_labels):
                api.projects.move_card(str(card['id']), 0)
                print(f"Moved card {card['id']}")

My use-case here is that I'd like to make it easier to "sort" the cards on a project board, based on the labels on issues they point to. The most obvious use for this is projects that have priority labels (so that priority:high would be at the top)

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In case this helps debug: it also seems like this is the case for moving columns to other positions as well - so perhaps it has something to do with putting the right information in the body of the API call. E.g., the move_card API has this example:

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.inertia-preview+json" \
  https://api.github.com/projects/columns/cards/42/moves \
  -d '{"position":"position"}'

And it sounds like the problem we're running into is in the generation of the -d '{"position":"position"}' part of the call.

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@choldgraf I've been pulled away for something at work that is going to be taking me away from open source for a couple of months :( Perhaps @jph00 can help here

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Ah bummer, I will try to figure something out 👍

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ah I think I finally figured this out. The problem is that the position key does not take a numerical argument (such as 0, 1, 2, etc). It takes a string like top or bottom. That's why it wasn't working.

This issue is resolved for me, and is really more of a GitHub Projects API documentation bug than here, so I'll close this

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