Initial sync: Error creating Monica contact: ['The selected gender id is invalid.']

[Turochamp]

Got this error when doing initial sync. In Google Contacts this entry does not have a gender entered. So don't understand why it's not valid. Is it general or specific to my Monica instance?

2021-07-27 11:13:08,642 INFO 'Petur V-son': Error creating Monica contact: ['The selected gender id is invalid.']
2021-07-27 11:13:08,643 ERROR Error creating Monica contact!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "GMSync.py", line 77, in main
    sync.startSync('initial')
  File "/home/mahs/git/GoogleMonicaSync/SyncHelper.py", line 44, in startSync
    self.__initialSync()
  File "/home/mahs/git/GoogleMonicaSync/SyncHelper.py", line 81, in __initialSync
    self.__buildSyncDatabase()
  File "/home/mahs/git/GoogleMonicaSync/SyncHelper.py", line 564, in __buildSyncDatabase
    monicaId = self.__interactiveMonicaIdSearch(googleContact)
  File "/home/mahs/git/GoogleMonicaSync/SyncHelper.py", line 1045, in __interactiveMonicaIdSearch
    monicaContact = self.__createMonicaContact(googleContact)
  File "/home/mahs/git/GoogleMonicaSync/SyncHelper.py", line 985, in __createMonicaContact
    monicaContact = self.monica.createContact(data=form.data)
  File "/home/mahs/git/GoogleMonicaSync/MonicaHelper.py", line 126, in createContact
    raise Exception("Error creating Monica contact!")
Exception: Error creating Monica contact!

[antonplagemann]

Hi @Turochamp,
I'm not sure on this...
The script uses the default gender types, which could have changed at your instance.
Can you send the gender types you have?
Simply log into your instance and head to https://your-monica-instance.com/api/genders and paste the output here.
That might help diagnosing this 😊

[Turochamp]

Hi @antonplagemann,

Below is the response output. Further testing shows that every time the sync tries to create a Monica contact result is this error.

{
    "data": [
        {
            "id": 71764,
            "object": "gender",
            "name": "Man",
            "type": "M",
            "account": {
                "id": 24528
            },
            "created_at": "2020-10-12T20:03:02Z",
            "updated_at": "2020-10-12T20:03:02Z"
        },
        {
            "id": 71765,
            "object": "gender",
            "name": "Woman",
            "type": "F",
            "account": {
                "id": 24528
            },
            "created_at": "2020-10-12T20:03:02Z",
            "updated_at": "2020-10-12T20:03:02Z"
        },
        {
            "id": 71766,
            "object": "gender",
            "name": "Rather not say",
            "type": "O",
            "account": {
                "id": 24528
            },
            "created_at": "2020-10-12T20:03:02Z",
            "updated_at": "2020-10-12T20:03:02Z"
        }
    ],
    "links": {
        "first": "http://my-monica-instance/api/genders?page=1",
        "last": "http://my-monica-instance/api/genders?page=1",
        "prev": null,
        "next": null
    },
    "meta": {
        "current_page": 1,
        "from": 1,
        "last_page": 1,
        "links": [
            {
                "url": null,
                "label": "❮ Previous",
                "active": false
            },
            {
                "url": "http://my-monica-instance/api/genders?page=1",
                "label": "1",
                "active": true
            },
            {
                "url": null,
                "label": "Next ❯",
                "active": false
            }
        ],
        "path": "http://my-monica-instance/api/genders",
        "per_page": 15,
        "to": 3,
        "total": 3
    }
}

[antonplagemann]

Ok thanks, got it 👍
I was using static values for the id as in my instance they are just 1, 2 and 3 but for your instance they start at 71764 😅
Another case of assuming wrong things 😊
With 695c03e the ids are now dynamically fetched from the instance, that should fix it.
Would be great if you can confirm this 🙂

[Turochamp]

Tested and confirmed. 😆