Escaped API response causes pydantic max_length validation to fail

[ilaskaev]

• lunchable version: 0.9.0
• Python version: 3.11

Description

Lunchmoney API (/v1/categories/group/{category_id}/add in this case) sometimes seems to send back some escaped characters (eg. / instead of /), which results in pydantic max_length validations to sometimes fail as string length is not counted correctly.

Imo this is probably a bug on the lunchmoney API side though

What I Did

1. Create a new category that is of 40 characters long and add it to a category group
2. Add a new category in same category group with insert_into_category_group method
3. Error will be raised as the children[] will fail instantiation due to having a length > 40 characters.

[juftin]

Hey @ilaskaev thanks for reporting 🙇 . That's a bummer, I'll look at only validating for 40 characters on the create / update side instead of the read side.

There are a number of big changes coming, including Pydantic v2 - I should be able to get this resolved in the next few days hopefully.

[juftin]

This is a bug being tracked here https://feedback.lunchmoney.app/bugs/p/unescape-category-names-in-api-response

FYI @ilaskaev - are you okay with waiting for that to be resolved or would you like a resolution in lunchable?

[ilaskaev]

Yep not a problem, I monkey patched the issue from my side to make things work.