[ARCHIVED] Internal server error when trying to create grade book column

[MatthewMoreno]

Im trying to make a custom grade book column, however, when trying to do so I get this error:

{
   "errors":
     [{
       "message":"An error occurred.",
       "error_code":"internal_server_error"}
     ],
      "error_report_id":519
}

The request is done in python and here is my code, most of it is taken from the custom gradebook column documentation

def post(self, request_url):
   total_url = self._api_url + request_url
   test_data = {
      "column": {
         "id": 2,
         "teacher_notes": False,
         "title": "Stuff",
         "position": 1,
         "hidden": False,
         "read_only": True,
      },
         "access_token": self._access_token
   }

    r = requests.post(total_url, data = test_data)
    print(r.text)

Im using pythons requests library to handle the http stuff.
total_url looks something like https://my-university.com/api/v1/courses/134/custom_gradebook_columns

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[jerry_nguyen · Accepted solution]

@MatthewMoreno 

I'm not using Python, however, the boolean value must be lower case (E.g. true, false - not True, False)

By the way, "id" is not part of the endpoint

{     
"column": {
         "title": "Stuff",
         "teacher_notes": false,
         "position": 1,
         "hidden": false,
         "read_only": true
      }
 }

[jerry_nguyen · Accepted solution]

@MatthewMoreno 

I'm not using Python, however, the boolean value must be lower case (E.g. true, false - not True, False)

By the way, "id" is not part of the endpoint

{     
"column": {
         "title": "Stuff",
         "teacher_notes": false,
         "position": 1,
         "hidden": false,
         "read_only": true
      }
 }

[MatthewMoreno]

boolean values in python have their first char capitalized (True, False). Changing them to lowercase will throw an undefined error. I got rid of ID but still no luck. Still getting an internal server error.

[jerry_nguyen · Accepted solution]

@MatthewMoreno 

Try 0 (false) and 1 (true) 

If you're using Python, you might want to consider using this Python Wrapper to access Canvas API: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/InstructureCon-2017/PyCanvas-A-Python-Wrapper-for-the-Canvas-API-...

[MatthewMoreno]

Using the CanvasAPI's create_custom_column method worked for me, thanks for bringing it to my attention!