Dependencies are now available in the API

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Today we launched another feature in our API: the ability to view and modify dependencies between tasks. Dependencies (and dependents) are available as a field on task objects and we have also added new endpoints to create and remove these relationships.

Have a look at the docs and let us know what you think!

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I canā€™t wait for instagantt to implement this so we can see when project menager set dependencies we can see it in Asana and not just in instagantt app.

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Hi Joe_Trollo, Iā€™m trying to set dependencies to my tasks using python API (GitHub - Asana/python-asana: Official Python client library for the Asana API v1) but Iā€™m not sure if Asana has any support for this. Itā€™s not implemented any method for setting dependencies between tasks os subtasks.

Do you know any available python API continuously updated?

Thank you.

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Hi @Breno_Carneiro_Pinhe,

Thanks for asking! We generate all of our client libraries from an upstream source, so supporting them all at the same time means we currently have a backlog on newer API features. In the meantime, you can use the workaround of using the post method on the client, i.e. instead of having something like

self.tasks.addDependency(taskId, params, **options)

you can use

self.client.post("/tasks/%s/addDependency" % (taskId), params, **options)

When our libraries are updated the underlying implementation will end up looking very similar to, say, self.tasks.addProject which you can use for a hint about what the API call directly on our client will look like. You can just do the equivalent 2 lines of code, and replace it with the clearer/nicer one on the next client library release.

Thanks, and we hope to catch up our client libraries to the new dependencies endpoints soon! In the medium term, weā€™re working to get to a state where our client libraries are easier to keep in sync with API endpoints, so thanks for your patience for now.

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Matt, thank you a lot for your reply. Iā€™m not sure about the correct call for post method because of the field **option.

Iā€™m trying something like: (I already have the ids of my task1 and task2)

import asana as asn

client = asn.Client.access_token(ASANA_ACCESS_TOKEN)

client.post(" https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/tasks/%s/addDependency" % (task[ā€˜idā€™]),{ā€˜dependenciesā€™:[task_dependencie[ā€˜idā€™]]})

however I donā€™t know what to set in **option field. How is the correct way to call this method? Can you paste an example?

Thank you again.

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Happy to help @Breno_Carneiro_Pinhe!

The options variable is an example of a keyword argument - itā€™s often seen in method calls as kwargs instead of options. It basically says ā€œSlurp up any additional arguments as key=value pairs into a Python dictionaryā€. We use it in cases like this (overriding the page size):

asn.client.tasks.create({projects=[12345]}, page_size=25)
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
                        These are `params`  These are the **options

In this case, you donā€™t need it. If you had any additional arguments, like overriding the default pagination size of 50, you can pass them here, but itā€™s not required.

So I think the code that you wrote should work, assuming that task_dependencie is a JSON response of a task from a previous API call, with only one change: the client will automatically append the path on a built-in base URL. So try this:

client.post("/tasks/%s/addDependency" % (task[ā€˜idā€™]),{ā€˜dependenciesā€™:[task_dependencie[ā€˜idā€™]]})

and let me know if you run into trouble!

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Great!! Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Breno

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@Joe_Trollo
Are dependency conflicts exposed in the API?

In the Gantt, conflicting dependencies are in red. (A task ends after the start of the blocked task). I want to be see in the API whether the dependency is conflicted (red) or not.

If not, which I donā€™t believe it is, how hard would it be to get this added?

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Hi @Getz_Pro,

A couple of notesā€¦

You are correct, the API does not include any information on conflicting dependencies.

Also, Joe Trollo is no longer with Asana. So Iā€™m ccā€™ing a few current people: @AndrewWong @Kem_Ozbek

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Thank you @Phil_Seeman

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@AndrewWong @Kem_Ozbek
any thoughts as to when this might make it into the API?

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@Getz_Pro,

Obviously Iā€™m not the Asana guys so they may weigh in, but I would say donā€™t expect it in the API as the API is a reflection of and just exposes functionality in the underlying web product, and thereā€™s no functionality in the web product to report conflicting dependencies, soā€¦