Error syncing files

[opal06]

I get the following error when trying to sync a file:
Fetching collection from Zotero... Done.
Fetching item list... Done.
Items to sync: 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/luca/.local/bin/sync_zotero_rm", line 70, in
rm_items = rmapy.get_meta_items()
File "/home/luca/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rmapy/api.py", line 180, in get_meta_items
for item in response.json():
File "/home/luca/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 898, in json
return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplejson/init.py", line 525, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 370, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 400, in raw_decode
return self.scan_once(s, idx=_w(s, idx).end())
simplejson.errors.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Any ideas?

[dnlbauer]

Hi,

this happens to me from time to time too. I'm still not sure what is causing this and how to fix it. The reason seems to be in the rmapy library (or I'm using it wrong).

This (suboptimal) workaround works for me:

• I have https://github.com/juruen/rmapi installed which uses the same config files rmapy uses for credentials etc.
• If this error happens, I make a single call to rmapi from command line. I.e. rmapi ls. This seems to refresh some cached token or something I am not aware of. (Log is saying ERROR: 2021/02/11 12:43:03 api.go:34: failed to fetch documents 401 Unauthorized Error; ERROR: 2021/02/11 12:43:03 main.go:30: retrying...)
• After that, sync_zotero_rm is working again.

Cheers,
Daniel

[opal06]

This did the job for me too, but I will keep an eye on it and maybe try to nail it down. Would be sweet if we were able to fix it.