Trello API: How do I accurately get the value of a Custom Field?

[Jake]

Hello :)

First time posting, thank you for any help & guidance. 

I'm attempting to store custom field values using GET /1/cards/{id}/customFieldItems 

My problem is that the order of the custom fields response is inconsistent, meaning my bracket notation to access the value is unreliable as the fields do not appear in the same position. 

value = response[0]['value']['number'];

Please see screenshot which shows the response of 4 separate cards in a list. 

Can someone please provide some knowledge as to why this happens and any options I may have to get around it?

Thank you very much!

[Felix]

Hey @Jake - this is a bit unfortunate, and we should probably be sorting the field items before returning them.

Nevertheless, you will have to rely on the idCustomField value to tell you which custom field the custom field item value refers.

Basically, you have the "customFields" which can be retrieved from /1/boards/:id/customFields, which is the definition of the fields (name, type, position, id).

That definition (the "customField") is what the customFieldItem.idCustomField refers to, and what you'll need to use to match up which customField the customFieldItem provides a value for.

Sidenote: there's also an Atlassian Developer Community (https://community.developer.atlassian.com/), where API questions might be answered more quickly.

Felix

[Jake]

Thank you very much Felix, I'll try to implement this and report back :)

I appreciate the response! 

Jake

[milynnus]

@Jake 

Would get by custom_field by name a better bet ...not sure this would work...you can try it

next(cf for cf in card_cf_list if cf['name'] == req_field_name)

(note...did not test code)

[Jake]

Thanks @milynnus I'll let you know how i go :)