[Bug] Error 62 when trying to message a teacher.

[le-jacob]

Describe the bug
When I try sending a message to a teacher with their ID, it doesn't work.
Sending to a classmate with their ID (that has "set_student_only(True)" enabled) works.
However this error also happens when I send a message to classmates without enabling set_student_only. That made me wonder if there was a similiar fix to that for teachers.

Your code

import edupage_api
eduthing = edupage_api.Edupage()
eduthing.login_auto(username="MYNAME", password="MYPASSWORD")

def eduaccount_fetch(names):
    people = eduthing.get_students()
    filtered_people = []
    for person in people:
        if person.name in names:
            filtered_people.append(person)
    for person in filtered_people:
        person.set_student_only(True)
    people = eduthing.get_teachers()

    for person in people:
        if person.name in names:
            filtered_people.append(person)
    ids = []
    for person in filtered_people:
        ids.append(person.get_id())
    return ids

receivers = eduaccount_fetch(["SOME TEACHER"])
eduthing.send_message(receivers, "testing testing")

Error message

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/lejacob/Documents/.my_dubiously_secret_path./edufetch", line 513, in <module>
    eduthing.send_message(receivers_2[1], message)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/lejacob/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/edupage_api/__init__.py", line 152, in send_message
    return Messages(self).send_message(recipients, body)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/lejacob/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/edupage_api/messages.py", line 50, in send_message
    raise RequestError(
        "Failed to send message (edupage returned an empty 'changes' array) - https://github.com/EdupageAPI/edupage-api/issues/62"
    )
edupage_api.exceptions.RequestError: Failed to send message (edupage returned an empty 'changes' array) - https://github.com/EdupageAPI/edupage-api/issues/62

Expected behavior
It should send the message like it does for other classmates

Version

• Edupage API version: (0.12.3)
• Python version: (3.13.5)

Thank you for the contributions to this project people, this is really a gem of a project since i kinda hate using the website.

[BelKed]

Are you able to send the message through the website? If you don't have permissions for some groups (teachers, ...), you probably won't be able to send messages...

[le-jacob]

Are you able to send the message through the website? If you don't have permissions for some groups (teachers, ...), you probably won't be able to send messages...

Yeah, the website works fine but not here
Does this work for you?

[BelKed]

I'm not in school that use EduPage anymore :(

Back then I remember testing the messages, but I believe I did send them only to myself

[le-jacob]

I'm not in school that use EduPage anymore :(

Back then I remember testing the messages, but I believe I did send them only to myself

Oh. Thats alright, im sure somebody else still does here
Thank you for your time, BelKed, i appreciate it :3

[ivanhrabcak]

There was a small bug in the code that encoded data when sending requests. This part of code was also used by messages.
Could you try to update edupage-api and try sending the message again? I suspect it could work now.

To update edupage_api (version 0.12.5):

pip install --upgrade edupage_api

[le-jacob]

There was a small bug in the code that encoded data when sending requests. This part of code was also used by messages. Could you try to update edupage-api and try sending the message again? I suspect it could work now.

To update edupage_api (version 0.12.5):

pip install --upgrade edupage_api

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/test.py", line 28, in <module> eduthing.send_message(receivers, "Hello!! Im testing if the edupage_api library finally sends messages to teachers. Thanks :P") ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/home/lejacob/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/edupage_api/__init__.py", line 152, in send_message return Messages(self).send_message(recipients, body) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/home/lejacob/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/edupage_api/messages.py", line 50, in send_message raise RequestError( "Failed to send message (edupage returned an empty 'changes' array) - https://github.com/EdupageAPI/edupage-api/issues/62" ) edupage_api.exceptions.RequestError: Failed to send message (edupage returned an empty 'changes' array) - https://github.com/EdupageAPI/edupage-api/issues/62
Sadly no change after upgrading to 0.12.5, even after using the same code (though modified a bit so it wouldnt store my password directly)
Is it because I use Debian 13 that has pretty outdated packages? Is it because of my Python copy thats 3.13.5?
Or is it because of my code?

[ivanhrabcak]

No, the issue is still not fixed. Thank you for testing :-)