todo.remove_completed_items does nothing for google_tasks integration

[ejpenney]

The problem

I would expect when making this service call:

service: todo.remove_completed_items
target:
  entity_id: todo.home_assistant_chores

All "completed" items in the Google Task list associated with that entity would be deleted, but they are not. I've tried running this with debug enabled but no messages appear, no errors. I see nothing related to todo or google_tasks. It simply does nothing.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2024.4.3

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Google Tasks

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_tasks

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[allenporter]

You're running 2024.3? Interesting, there was a bug with removing tasks where it would fail, but this was addressed in #115258

[allenporter]

I'm not able to reproduce this. Does it work when you use the UI to remove all completed items? Both the service and the UI work fine for me.

Maybe manually turning up debug logging in the logger for googleapiclient can give us more detail.

[ejpenney]

Neat, it does work from the UI, only service calls are failing.

I enabled googleapiclient debug logging and see nothing in the logs.

[allenporter]

Does the debug logging show anything when run from the UI?

[ejpenney]

No, I'm not seeing anything in the logs there either. Never sure if I get the config right for debugging:

Sorry about the screen shots, I'd c+p but I'm out of town without my laptop...

I also noticed that when calling the service the completed items are disappearing from the list in Home Assistant but not from Google Tasks. Whereas if I press the UI button they disappear in both places.

[allenporter]

Google tasks has no local state, so home assistant only reflects what is on the server. That is when removing items, it sends a remove call then a query.

Are you sure this is using Google tasks?

[ejpenney]

Yes this is definitely Google Tasks:

I tried reloading the integration and the "removed task" is still not visible in Home Assistant but is still present when I open Tasks via the Android app and the webpage:

[ejpenney]

Sorry about the delay, that weekend I was out of town ended with my dog dying and this fell off my radar...

I think giving this some space I was able to figure out what's going on. I did some more experimenting today and I created this TODO list:

I then executed the completions as described in each task item, you can see the result here in GTasks:

But interestingly this is not what I see in Home Assistant:

I tried running:

service: todo.get_items
data:
  status:
    - completed
target:
  entity_id: todo.home_assistant_chores

But the items checked off via Google Tasks still do not appear on the list, they have completely disappeared and Home Assistant won't acknowledge them! So naturally when I tell Home Assistant to do the remove the items don't get removed. I suspect that this is why I'm seeing this behavior, that's typically our usage: The kids check their chores off in GTasks, HA clears the completed items (and allow repeats to re-create) every evening.

[allenporter]

So the issue is that completing a task in Google tasks doesn't show it on the home assistant side? Presumably they are not being returned from the tasks api anymore but there may be some status filtering