Make updateNoteFields update tags as well

[gsingh93]

updateNoteFields doesn't update tags, but I'm not sure if this is an intentional choice or not. It seems like a common pattern would be (at least one that I use) is attempting to add a new note, and if it's a duplicate update it instead. Currently I can't just pass the note to updateNoteFields and be done with it because I need to add tags separately with addTags.

[snoyes]

Do them both at once with multi.

[gsingh93]

Yup, that's how I'm doing it now: https://github.com/gsingh93/anki-csv-importer/blob/13929045943e7eb8e12a34e84460a2be0e1b9a6b/anki-csv-importer.py#L114-L121

It's just inconvenient and unexpected behavior.

[reuseman]

The proposal seems a good one. I am currently using the API and it seems a bit inconsistent with how the update of the other fields are handled. It would be amazing if the edit of the tags could be done in updateNoteFields

[eyeinsky]

Do them both at once with multi.

When wanting to set a note's tags to some list then using multi there would still be two commands to run:

• run a notesInfo on a note to get the currently present tag list
• create a multi that (1) removes tags not in the "wanted tags" list (2) adds missing tags

Would it be be difficult to add this to the updateNoteFields action itself?

[xx299x]

I am using this API,but it literally can't update tags. if it could do it, it will save my lots of times.