fix: handle object and multi-object custom fields correctly #452
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Fix Custom Fields with object/multi-object type handling #451
Problem
When patching NetBox objects with custom fields of type "object" or "multi-object", netbox-sync tries to use the complete object representation received from the API instead of just the required object IDs. This causes errors like:
The API returns object references in custom fields with properties like
id
,url
,display
, andname
, but when patching, NetBox only expects the ID(s) of the referenced object(s).Solution
Modified the update method in the NetBoxObject class to properly handle custom fields of type "object" and "multi-object". When patching values:
Implementation Details
{"id": 123, "display": "Object", ...}
to just123