Hi,
I have been trying to get the entity of a TimelineObject by simply calling TimelineObject.entity and the API documentation says that either the entity will be returned or it will return null if the TimelineObject is a group (2nd screenshot). However, since I realized that calling entity on my timeline object was doing neither, I put it in a try catch statement (1st screenshot), and since it always goes to the catch, I believe calling entity is raising an error. Is there a reason for this?
Can you attach a model that demonstrates this problem? Probably what's happening is that there's a type of entity in the timeline that the API has overlooked and doesn't support. We need to correct that but we need to know what type of entity it is. Depending on what you're doing it might be ok to put a try except around getting the entity property and just continue even if there is an exception thrown.
I haven't attached a model here because the snippet of code is part of a much larger framework. However, I have included some pictures of some of the TimelineObjects that raise an error when attempting to retrieve their entities. In these cases, I can't just leave allow the exception to be raised because I need the entities for these TimelineObjects. Hope this clears things up.
Thanks for the picture. It's what I suspected and the API doesn't currently have support for those features. Hopefully it works in your workflow to just skip over unrecognized features. I've added this to our backlog but don't have a timeframe when we'll be able to work on it yet.
There isn't a way to access information for these features because the API currently doesn't know anything about them. I've added this to our backlog and we'll prioritize with the rest of the work we're doing. I don't now exactly when it will be available right now but it should be relatively soon.
Fusion
