https://gh-jamesmontgomery.github.io/pages-blog/categories/automation/ Recent content in Automation on James Montgomery Hugo en-gb Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://gh-jamesmontgomery.github.io/pages-blog/2019/06/order-order/ Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://gh-jamesmontgomery.github.io/pages-blog/2019/06/order-order/ <h2 id="tl-dr">TL; DR</h2> <p>A year ago, I took to AWS to solve a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/using-aws-step-functions-automate-todoist-james-montgomery/">label ordering challenge</a> in my productivity application Todoist. I&rsquo;ve summarised it <a href="https://gh-jamesmontgomery.github.io/pages-blog/projects/todoist-ordering/">in this project page</a> along with the outcome of this addition.</p> <p>I recently revisited to see if the REST API was updated to allow reordering of items. It had not. The relevant property was read-only, and therefore, the functionality was still exclusive to the <a href="https://developer.todoist.com/sync/v8/#reorder-items">Sync API</a>.</p> <p>I took this as an opportunity to learn the Sync API for which there was an <a href="https://github.com/doist/todoist-python">official Python library</a>. Additionally, the need for an external library would allow me to experiment with AWS deployment packages and layers for Lambda.</p>