Python SDK - projectSettings - nonWorkingDays

Update: "Works" apparently only means that it doesn't throw an error when executing the code. Per the documentation at https://smartsheet-platform.github.io/api-docs/?python#update-sheet it says:

Given this I would expect this code (which throws no error when executed) to clear the list of non-working days:

updated_sheet = smartsheet_client.Sheets.update_sheet(
    SMARTSHEET_ID,
    smartsheet.models.Sheet({
        "project_settings": smartsheet.models.ProjectSettings({
            "non_working_days": []
        })
    })
)

If I run this exactly nothing happens with sheet I'm trying to update. If toss in a name update to the sheet, like this:

updated_sheet = smartsheet_client.Sheets.update_sheet(
    SMARTSHEET_ID,
    smartsheet.models.Sheet({
        "name": "Change me, oh yeah!",
        "project_settings": smartsheet.models.ProjectSettings({
            "non_working_days": []
        })
    })
)

It will update the name of the sheet and do nothing about the non-working days. The few manually added dates still remain.

I would say that my from-the-hip-probability-calculator-o-matics new calculation is that it's 64% on a bug in the SDK, 32% on bad docs for the SDK and 2% on me being an idiot and 2% on something I haven't thought of.

Hi @ToriLynn M

To begin with I will be upfront with the fact that I'm extremly annoyed. Also English isn't my first language so the rest of the message might be harsher than intedended (I don't have anybody available for tone check).

Do you know what the difference between an API and an SDK is? Do you know anything about Python? The reason I ask is because your answers seems to indicate that you don't know the difference and that you don't know anything about Python. Now, there is no shame in that (nobody know everything) but it makes this very frustrating. Let me explain what I mean.

You are entirely correct in that the API is using camelCase as the naming style but as I've tried to make abundantly clear (in the title of this thread and every post I've made) I'm not talking about the raw API-commands, I'm talking about the Python SDK. If you take a look at the Python documentation that is provided for the updateSheet fuction: https://smartsheet-platform.github.io/api-docs/?python#update-sheet the example code looks like this:

updated_sheet = smartsheet_client.Sheets.update_sheet(
  4583173393803140,       # sheet_id
  smartsheet.models.Sheet({
    'name': 'New Sheet Name',
    'user_settings': smartsheet.models.SheetUserSettings({
      'critical_path_enabled': True
    })
  })
)

Do you see it? If not let me shine a light to it. The raw API says "userSettings" but the example code provided uses "user_settings". The same with "criticalPathEnabled", in the example it is "critical_path_enabled". Even the single quotes you were talking about in your first reply is present in the example code provided by Smartsheet. Let me explain why. This is not the API, this is the SDK. The SDK is a wrapper for the API that makes it easer to work with the API when you're using Python.

Why does the API use camelCase but the SDK use snake_case? Probably because the style guide for Python says that variables and functions should be using snake_case, you can read about it here: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#function-and-variable-names

• Why doesn't it matter if you use single or double quotes when you're using the SDK? Because you're not directly interacting with the API, the SDK will convert it to the API calls and the SDK doesn't care about single or double quotes.
• Why doesn't it matter if you use single or double quotes when you're using the SDK? Because you're not directly interacting with the API, the SDK will convert it to the API calls and the SDK doesn't care about single or double quotes.

Hopefully we've know established that I'm talking about the Python SDK, not the raw API. Hopefully we've know established that the SDK is not the API. What does this mean? Well that means that your answers are wrong.

Not an issues since the brackets you are talking about are part of the Python code and since I'm talking about the Python SDK they need to be there. Don't belive me? Check the code example above that's taken from the offical documentation.

Yeah... Not an issues since we are talking about the Python SDK. So to make use of the Python SDK you kinda have to write Python code... Also see the code example about that's taken from the official documentation.

Well, well... Who could have known, something I actually agree with. My reasoning was that if I'm going to write a Python application and a Python SDK is provided then that is the most simple way as possible. I the wrote my code using the examples in the documentation but it gave men an error so I posted a question about it...

Now I don't know if you're affilated with Smartsheet or just a person who likes to try and help. If you're just a helpfull person then I'm thankfull for your helping spirit but I would suggest that you focus it on areas you are knowledgeable about.

If you're affiliated with Smartsheet (which your wording implies) then I'm severly dissappointed by your lack of reading comprehension and skill. If you don't know be upfront about it. Don't give me answers that are wrong just so that there is answer in thread. That's not helpfull to me or others who might be searching for the same answer. This is not a behaviour that is fitting a company support representative.