Could not update anime status

[botagas]

Describe the bug
Overall the plugin worked okay, but I’ve noticed recently that most of the shows that I watched as of late were not updated on MAL. It doesn’t seem to be able to do so if I finish an episode, mark as completed, or if I do manual sync.

Logs
These are the only ones I could find relevant:

[2024-07-29 12:20:38.353 +03:00] [ERR] [50] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status
[2024-07-29 12:20:40.826 +03:00] [ERR] [50] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status
[2024-07-29 12:21:11.522 +03:00] [ERR] [50] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status
[2024-07-29 12:21:13.993 +03:00] [ERR] [50] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to an episode/series and watch it / mark as completed
2. Go to myanimelist to see if the updates were pushed and see that it hasn’t updated
3. Check logs in Jellyfin
4. See error

Expected behavior
MAL to be updated.

Screenshots
No screenshots.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Browser: using apps (Swiftfin for iOS, Jellyfin on webOS, Jellyfin Media Player), using Safari, Chrome and Firefox browsers
• Jellyfin version 10.9.7
• Plugin version 3.2.0.0

Additional context
The only thing I could imagine is that I recently did an update on Jellyfin. I do believe this began before the update though.

If there is any specific information needed, I am willing to provide anything else.

[botagas]

Nevermind, took me a while to figure out the issue was that I had to untick “Only change anime in Plan to Watch?”. I had no idea what the checkbox did, but it was the culprit it seems.

Before that, I had made a different library in Jellyfin and moved anime shows to that library. That was the reason I was trying to do a manual sync because the progress wasn’t updated for quite some time.

EDIT: Opening the issue as I still see these errors pop up, so it seems not all shows are being updated, but no actual error message that would pin point an issue is given. Recent ones being the same:
[2024-07-29 13:40:51.119 +03:00] [ERR] [81] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status [2024-07-29 13:40:53.542 +03:00] [ERR] [108] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status [2024-07-29 13:40:55.997 +03:00] [ERR] [100] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status [2024-07-29 13:40:58.471 +03:00] [ERR] [100] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status [2024-07-29 13:41:00.958 +03:00] [ERR] [100] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status [2024-07-29 13:41:03.409 +03:00] [ERR] [100] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status [2024-07-29 13:41:11.762 +03:00] [ERR] [93] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status [2024-07-29 13:41:23.581 +03:00] [ERR] [80] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status [2024-07-29 13:41:25.857 +03:00] [ERR] [93] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status [2024-07-29 13:41:28.534 +03:00] [ERR] [80] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status [2024-07-29 13:41:34.109 +03:00] [ERR] [93] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status [2024-07-29 13:41:36.549 +03:00] [ERR] [93] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status [2024-07-29 13:41:39.020 +03:00] [ERR] [49] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status [2024-07-29 13:41:41.494 +03:00] [ERR] [93] jellyfin_ani_sync.UpdateProviderStatus: (Mal) Could not update anime status

I suspect this is due to some anime that are considered 1 whole season in Jellyfin while in MAL they are two separate cours.

[vosmiic]

Nevermind, took me a while to figure out the issue was that I had to untick “Only change anime in Plan to Watch?”. I had no idea what the checkbox did, but it was the culprit it seems.

The explanation for that option is in the wiki. Its mostly safe to leave unticked now because the way the plugin detects what to update in the provider has been much improved since the wiki was last updated.

I'm quite puzzled as to how you are getting these errors logged without anything else being logged; hard to think of a situation where that happens.
Could you perhaps try using the beta version of the plugin? It contains some fixes for shows that have multiple cours, and may fix the issues you are running into.