Filter by number exception

[PetrF0X]

Hi,

I found it impossible to filter items by number field, when I want to achieve a constraint with no limit (for example all greater than 10). The filter should look like fieldId=10-null. When I change the float to Float in NumberInterval class and pass 10 and null to it, it looks like this. But after that the API says

APIException [status=Bad Request, error=Expected value of form x-y, description=Expected value of form x-y, parameters=null]

So I tried to outwit this error by inserting a reasonably big number, like Integer.MAX_VALUE instead of the null, but it ends up with the same exception. Even if I pass a number like 1000000000, it crashes with the same error.

But the filtering in Podio allows me to do all the stuff above. Am I doing something wrong or is the filtering here not fully implemented?

Btw. I am able to propose a pull request with some changes, but I tried many things with no good result... Can you give me some hints?

Thank you,
Petr

[mhrdev]

1. You should do "fieldId=10-" instead of " "fieldId=10-null"
2. It looks like the number in the request gets converted to the scientific notation (eg. -2.14748365E9). That causes the error.
3. BTW: Podio-java client uses an old (unsupported) method get_items. We should move away from it and use filter_items (this pull_request is actually addressing this issue - I have no time currently to look at it)

[PetrF0X]

Hi Marek @mhrdev,
thank you for the hints. I have looked at it and found out that the changes in getItems() to use filter_items requires also changes in FilterBy classes, because the API expects objects, not strings... I have a partially working solution, I will maybe provide a full working pull request in the future...