Asana task creation missing fields error

Question

I am trying to create Asana task using oAuth, so far it was working fine, but suddenly its not working anymore.

It is throwing back the following response:

{"errors":[{"message":"missing both `parent` and `workspace` fields; at least one required"}]}

Here is what I am doing

import requests
import json

data = {
    'workspace':'<my workspace id>',
    'assignee':'me',
    'name':'My awesome task',
    'notes':'My task notes'
}
headers ={'Authorization':'Bearer <my token>','Content-Type':'application/json'}
response = requests.post('https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/tasks',
                         headers=headers,
                         data=json.dumps(data))
print response.text

@VincentBeltman Except the token and workspace id everything is same — Maddy, Oct 23 '14 at 11:23
You could try sending the data as headers. The Asana API accepts bouth. http://developer.asana.com/documentation/#tasks — Vincent Beltman, Oct 23 '14 at 11:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 23 '14 at 14:06

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It looks like you're missing a data parameter in the payload. It's a common gotcha, but when you post JSON data to the API you need to send something that looks like this:

{ "data": { "name": "This is my task", "workspace": 1234, ... } }

In this case, you should be able to fix it by simply changing the last parameter to data=json.dumps({ 'data': data }).

Hope that helps!

answered Oct 23 '14 at 14:06

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Thanks But i just removed Content-Type header and sending raw dict to requests.post() and it worked! – Maddy Oct 24 '14 at 09:11

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