Sort many photosets with 'flickr.photosets.orderSets' failed

[FreeHarry]

I want to sort my photosets. They are about ~420. But I can't do that with the call 'flickr.photosets.orderSets'. I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 ...
 File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python 3.5\lib\site-packages\flickrapi\call_builder.py", line 37, in __call__
   return self.flickrapi_object.do_flickr_call(self.method_name, **kwargs)
 File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python 3.5\lib\site-packages\flickrapi\core.py", line 322, in do_flickr_call
   **params)
 File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python 3.5\lib\site-packages\flickrapi\core.py", line 384, in _wrap_in_parser
   data = wrapped_method(*args, **kwargs)
 File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python 3.5\lib\site-packages\flickrapi\core.py", line 362, in _flickr_call
   reply = self.flickr_oauth.do_request(self.REST_URL, kwargs)
 File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python 3.5\lib\site-packages\flickrapi\auth.py", line 255, in do_request
   raise exceptions.FlickrError('do_request: Status code %s received' % req.status_code)
flickrapi.exceptions.FlickrError: do_request: Status code 414 received

The problem is the request URI is too long. But how can I avoid that anyhow? How else shall I sort my photosets?

[FreeHarry]

I played a little with request module and read some information. That leads me to a solution that works perfectly for me. With it all the flickr calls in my application are right done, also the 'flickr.photosets.orderSets' with many photosets.

All what I changed in your flickrapi was substituting the requests.post() argument 'params' with 'data'. I did this in the file auth.py, line 243:

242 req = requests.post(url,
243     params=params,
244     auth=self.oauth,
245     headers={'Connection': 'close'})

changed to

242 req = requests.post(url,
243     data=params,
244     auth=self.oauth,
245     headers={'Connection': 'close'})

This solution eliminates the HTTP 414 “Request URI too long” error. It moves the request data from the query string to the body. I have not much deep insight to estimate if this modification will work well in all situations. It is an approach and currently I got no problems at all.

[FreeHarry]

Sorry, I saw currently it was already posted as pull request here => #73

[sybrenstuvel]

Fixed in e64c2aa.

[FreeHarry]

Thank you very much for fixing it!