Add linked records in base.insert_row

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To unit-test a Python script that listens for UPDATE_DTABLE events, I would like to use the Python API to emulate the manual insertion of a row in a table that is grouped by a linked record columns. In other words, is there a way to use the Python API functionality to generate an update event of the following form:

    "op_type": "insert_row",
    "table_id": "...",
    "row_id": "...",
    "row_insert_position": "insert_below",
    "row_data": {
        "_id": "...",
        "_participants": [],
        "_creator": "...",
        "_ctime": "",
        "_last_modifier": "...",
        "_mtime": ""
    },
    "links_data": {
        "l2qt": {
            "link_table_id": "...",
            "linked_table_id": "...",
            "id_linked_rows_ids": {
                "...": [
                    "..."
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

It doesn’t seem like I can use base.insert_row and then base.add_link, because that doesn’t result in the same event data as when a user inserts the row with the linked record into the table through the GUI.

2

Hi @Bram.

You have to insert a new row. The return value would be the new row id.
After that you can update the like column value.

3

Thanks for your reply. However, my question is if there is a way to include the link data in the row insertion step directly, so that the event data received by the listener looks like the snippet I included in my original post.

4

I didn’t find a solution in the docs so I would say no.