There's no "RemoteServer" on anki.sync file.

This import is the problem.

https://github.com/lervag/apy/blob/0552b91f8ee9c46027c98233cc6734b0835cd37a/apy/anki.py#L9

I had to remove that import (and it’s usage on the file) because apy crashed at execution. It seems that the official Anki’s source code changed and anki.sync.py file doesn’t include “RemoteServer” anymore.

#https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/master/pylib/anki/sync.py
#This is all the code that's included inside anki.sync.py file



from .httpclient import HttpClient

AnkiRequestsClient = HttpClient


class Syncer:
    def sync(self) -> str:
        pass

I don’t know if this is a related issue, or even expected behavior, but after executing apy info

Anki throws the next error at restart.

What do you think? This is related to that conflicting import?

[lervag]

Ah, I see. Thanks, happy to hear you are getting somewhere. And please, feel free to open more issues. As you can understand, this is probably a WIP that will never really finish, as I need to keep adapting it to the current version of Anki.

[lervag]

That’s weird, I’m on version 2.1.23. I think that the problem is indeed with the Anki API that somehow was updated. I had to download the API from PyPi in order to make apy to read it, but the code is equal to the files on the official repository.

Huh, strange. Notice that the file sync.py on github on tag 2.1.23 is not similar to what you showed:

https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/2.1.23/pylib/anki/sync.py

There are some minor changes to version 2.1.24, but nothing similar to what’s in your version:

https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/2.1.24/pylib/anki/sync.py

The change where sync.py becomes so short is made between 2.1.27 and 2.1.28. Thus, you are clearly using a more recent version of the Anki API.

So, to make apy work, you could try to clone anki from the github repo and pin it at version 2.1.23. Then set APY_ANKI_PATH to the path to which you’ve cloned anki.

By other hand, I’ve just recently started digging into Anki’s source code and I see this project as an amazing starting point. That’s why I’m really curious, what’s the intention of importing anki.sync? As I understand that module is intended to handle sync across a network, but I could be wrong.

The point of sync.py is to implement the syncing mechanism between desktop and ankiweb. apy supports doing the syncing from the command line, which is why it relies on this part of the Anki code.

Thanks for your support 😃

My pleasure. 😃