501 error - must not be blank - task status

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Hi,

when I try change task status by api I receive error message:

{"message":"must not be blank","code":501}

I’m using python to connect and this is how my code look:

import csv
import json
import requests

token = "token"
url = "https://api.clockify.me/api/v1/"
project_id = "id"
headers = {
   "X-Api-Key": token
}

data = {
    'status': 'DONE',
}

response = requests.put(
    f'{url}/workspaces/workspaceid/projects/{project_id}/tasks/taskid', 
    json=data, 
    headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

What I do wrong?

2
  • when I add more parameters e.g. ‘name’, request start working
3

Hello Mariusz,

Yes, even if you only want to update the task’s status, you must include all of the parameters in the body of the request because when you send a PUT request, the entity that you’re sending will overwrite the current one.
This is the expected behavior because the endpoint ends with task ID. If it were a PATCH method, you would be able to change one parameter only, or if the endpoint ends in ‘status’ instead of the task ID.

I hope this clarifies it a bit!

Cheers!

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