Where did the notes attribute go?

[SergeoLacruz]

Since update to 17 the notes attribute on parts has vanished. The following does not work any longer:

part_to_update.save({ 'notes': 'Hello'})
print(part_to_update.notes)

AttributeError: 'Part' object has no attribute 'notes'

Any idea?

[miggland]

How did you get the part, through list(), or directly with a defined pk?

See this issue, it could be related: inventree/InvenTree#8672

The difference in that case is not in inventree-python, but in the API..

[SergeoLacruz]

via Part.list(api) and then some further search in the list.

[miggland]

Probably you will be able to access the note if do something like

part_to_update = Part(api, pk=14)

[SergeoLacruz]

In that way it works. Strange...
Thanks for the hint :-)

[miggland]

Yes, I agree. The reason is that getting a single item and the listing use different API endpoints.

The listing does not return notes, whereas the single item endpoint does, thus inventree/InvenTree#8672 ..

[JJSteh]

Seconding this issue a year later. I've confirmed Issue #8672 is the source still. Not sure how to get that issue reopened but I added a comment there as well.

[SchrodingersGat]

As discussed in the linked issue - this is an intentional decision to reduce overhead when fetching a large list of items