the JSON object must be str, bytes or bytearray, not ‘SimplePublicObjectWithAssociations’
i tried with Json.. output looks Json or like python dict but obviously isn’t?
Hi, @karien 
Thanks for reaching out. Hey @LeeBartelme @taran42, do y’all have any insight here for @karien?
Thank you! Jaycee
Seeing the code you are having trouble with and an idea of the goal behind what you are doing would help diagnose the issue.
GOAL == get first and last name of objectid (contacts)thx Lee, i condensed whats important in the code and pertaining to the issue. I need to get the simplePublicObject* type returned converted to Dict. to be able to unpack itimport hubspotimport osimport jsonclient = hubspot.Client.create(api_key="api_key")#def main(event):def get_first_last_name_by_contact_id(): #object_id_contact = event.get('inputFields').get('') object_id_contact = "12468101" OAUTH = os.getenv('OAUTH') try: api_response = client.crm.objects.basic_api.get_by_id(object_type="0-1", object_id=f'{object_id_contact}', properties=["firstname", "lastname"], archived=False) except ApiException as e:print("Exception when calling basic_api->get_by_id: %s\n" % e) return api_response -> 200-> {"archived": False,"archived_at": 1,"associations": 1,"created_at": datetime.datetime(2022, 6, 16, 11, 55, 49, 19000, tzinfo=tzutc()),"id": "12468101","properties": {"createdate": "2022-06-16T11:55:49.019Z","firstname": "Karien","hs_object_id": "12468101","lastmodifieddate": "2022-09-01T09:43:44.443Z","lastname": "Skinner"},"properties_with_history": 1,"updated_at": datetime.datetime(2022, 9, 1, 9, 43, 44, 443000, tzinfo=tzutc())} #below is what i tried amongst other things to try make json.load work. api_string = (str(api_response)) api_string = api_string.replace("'",'"') #double quotes needed for json #try to convert to dict error - i need to unpack my output to get first and last names json_data = json.loads(api_string) print(json_data) -> raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting valuedetails = get_first_last_name_by_contact_id()print(details)
ok i found my problem, i dont need to use json to convert this object into dict. so i can unpack it…
i simply need to use the response to get what i need… how easy is that, thats if you know…no conversions needed… no unpacking of nested dictionaries… lists etc.
api_response = client.crm.objects.basic_api.get_by_id(object_type="0-1", object_id=f'{object_id_contact}', properties=["firstname", "lastname"], archived=False)firstname = api_response.properties["firstname"]-->Karien
and also a note, its for this specific case where i have access to the properties, in other case you do need to convert to dict --> (json)
if this can help someone else i used below to convert to dict for another use case
api_response = client.crm.objects.associations_api.get_all(object_type="2-7431691", object_id=f'{object_id_sg}', to_object_type="0-1", api_string = (str(api_response))api_string = api_string.replace("'",'"')#for json needs double quotesapi_string = api_string.replace('None', "1")#to avoid none errorprint(type(api_string))print(api_string)json_data = json.loads(api_string)print(type(json_data))print(json_data)
in another use case i did need to convert to dict. and had some errors, to correct those i did the following
api_response = client.crm.objects.associations_api.get_all(object_type="2-7431691", object_id=f'{object_id_sg}', to_object_type="0-1", api_string = (str(api_response))api_string = api_string.replace("'",'"')api_string = api_string.replace('None', "1")json_data = json.loads(api_string)
ah thx for sharing.
You’re welcome. Happy to help 