body is not stored in NoteData

[alglez]

When getting the body of a note with get_note. The body is none

note = joplinApi.get_note("123456")
print(note.body) # this is none 

But if you do:

note = joplinApi.get_note("123456", fields="body")
print(note.body) # this return the body string

The second note still is NoteData type, but with no id, no title, only body

The method to access the body of a note seems inconsistent, and I don't understand why those two NoteData are separated and if that behavior is expected or if it has something to do with the dataclasses merge (#17)

[marph91]

That's not a problem in Joppy, but rather expected behavior of Joplin's data API:

$ curl http://localhost:41184/notes/8e91940c76014e8480825a72d93755b4
{"id":"8e91940c76014e8480825a72d93755b4","parent_id":"e7ec4ca2780146c798031e09e79af8fc","title":"test note","type_":1}

$ curl http://localhost:41184/notes/8e91940c76014e8480825a72d93755b4?fields=body
{"body":"test body","type_":1}

$ curl http://localhost:41184/notes/8e91940c76014e8480825a72d93755b4?fields=id,title,body
{"id":"8e91940c76014e8480825a72d93755b4","title":"test note","body":"test body","type_":1}

So in your case, id, title and body can be passed as comma-separated values. This can be done in a single request:

note = joplinApi.get_note("123456", fields="id,title,body")

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NB: Joppy is a thin API wrapper. Each request returns a separate object. There is no implicit merging of NoteData objects. That means if you want to do an action on the same note, you would have to pass the id. If you want to operate on the note objects directly, you might take a look at https://github.com/S73ph4n/python_joplin (not sure if there is any development activity, though).

[alglez]

Ok, perfect. Thanks for the explanation.