Filtering PartCategory list does not work

[martonmiklos]

Hello folks,

I am running InvenTree stable. I have tried to serch for a category with: identical = PartCategory.list(api, name='Arena cikkek') And it returns an unfilteted list:

for i in identical: print(i.name) 
-uncategorized-
Digitroll termékek
Module Assembly

The name parameter seems to be going out in the request parameter: [19/Oct/2022 14:43:58] "GET /api/part/category/?pk=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 732

With the InvenTree's built in API tester I can filter according to my desire:

Am I missing something at the API usage?

[SchrodingersGat]

@martonmiklos something strange going on here.

Firstly, the PartCategory API endpoint does not let you filter by category name. You could search for the category using `search='Arena cikkek' though.

What version of inventree-python library are you running? I ran a test on 0.8.3 (with latest master inventree server):

from inventree.api import InvenTreeAPI
from inventree.part import PartCategory

api = InvenTreeAPI('http://localhost:8000', username='admin', password='inventree')

cats = PartCategory.list(api, name='Electronics')

for cat in cats:
    print(cat.pk, cat.name)

output:

1 Electronics
13 Connectors
21 Pin Headers
8 IC
9 Interface
11 MCU
4 Passives
6 Capacitors
7 Inductors
5 Resistors

And the server logs:

[20/Oct/2022 04:54:49] "GET /api/part/category/?name=Electronics HTTP/1.1" 200 5802

So, note that the pk value is not getting included in the API query, like it is in your case.

[martonmiklos]

@SchrodingersGat Many thanks for your response!

Firstly, the PartCategory API endpoint does not let you filter by category name.

Is it intentional? I think searching category by name is a valid demand in the case if someone tries to create migration tools. If not intentional I can look into fixing this, however if you can pinpoint where should I look that would be awesome.

You could search for the category using `search='Arena cikkek' though.

Yeah it helped me, however it search in a wildcarded way (searching for 'Cable' list 'Cable assemblies' as well which needs post filtering for identical match).

[SchrodingersGat]

If not intentional I can look into fixing this

You can create a PR over on the inventree source.

You will need to add 'name' the 'filterset_fields' list:

https://github.com/inventree/InvenTree/blob/b9de7e548849bcb75cb6e4871f14ae3c49f082a9/InvenTree/part/api.py#L155