400 Error Bad Request Dynamic Templates with Substitutions not working

[akaushik759]

Issue Summary

I am trying to send multiple emails using a Dynamic Template, with each email having their own unique substitutions using the Mail Helper class. If I don't include the substitutions then the code works perfectly and mails are delivered, but as soon as I include substitution I get a "HTTP Error 400: Bad Request".
I am using Virtual Environment and running it in my Flask app.
I have installed sendgrid using "pip install sendgrid" and its updated to the latest version.

Code Snippet

to_emails = [
    	To(
    		email='[email protected]',
    		name='person1',
    		substitutions={
    			'-unsubscribeLink-':'https://www.xyz.com'
    		}
    		),
    	To(
    		email='[email protected]',
    		name='person2',
    		substitutions={
    			'-unsubscribeLink-':'https://www.abc.com'
    		}
    		),
    ]

	message = Mail(
    			from_email=From('[email protected]','Website'),
    			to_emails=to_emails,
    			is_multiple=True)

	message.template_id = 'd-c8d1a24b4539459b831407e2562045a9'
	try:
		sg = SendGridAPIClient('API KEY')
		response = sg.send(message)
		print(response.status_code)
		print(response.body)
		print(response.headers)
	except Exception as e:
		print(str(e))

Exception/Log

HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

Technical details:

• sendgrid-python version: I had installed using "pip install sendgrid" and its version is 6.3.1, so I don't think I am using "sendgrid-python".
• python version: Python 3.6.7

I tried upgrading and this is what it prints

pip install sendgrid --upgrade

Requirement already up-to-date: sendgrid in ./p37ve/lib/python3.6/site-packages (6.3.1)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: python-http-client>=3.2.1 in ./p37ve/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sendgrid) (3.2.7)

[eshanholtz]

It looks like this issue may have been fixed in #908. You can check by installing this library locally, or wait until the fix is rolled out in the next release on 2020-06-24

[childish-sambino]

I don't think that will help. Best to log the error body response to see a more detailed reason for the failure. Example here: https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-python/blob/master/use_cases/error_handling.md

[akaushik759]

I don't think that will help. Best to log the error body response to see a more detailed reason for the failure. Example here: https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-python/blob/master/use_cases/error_handling.md

I did that and here is the response

b'{"errors":[{"message":"Substitutions may not be used with dynamic templating","field":"personalizations.0.substitutions","help":"http://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/Web_API_v3/Mail/errors.html#message.personalizations.substitutions"},{"message":"Substitutions may not be used with dynamic templating","field":"personalizations.1.substitutions","help":"http://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/Web_API_v3/Mail/errors.html#message.personalizations.substitutions"}]}'

@eshanholtz I tried the #908 fix, but it still throws up error, not sure what I am doing wrong.
to_emails = [ To(email='[email protected]', name='Example Name 0', dynamic_template_data={ 'name': 'Dynamic Name 0', 'url': 'https://example.com/test0', }, subject='Override Global Subject'), To(email='[email protected]', name='Example Name 1', dynamic_template_data={ 'name': 'Dynamic Name 1', 'url': 'https://example.com/test1', }), ]

I got another exception for this :

TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'dynamic_template_data'

Will the fix for this specific issue (substitution support for dynamic templates) be released on 2020-06-24?

[childish-sambino]

The fix will be to switch from using substitutions to dynamic_template_data in your code. Support for doing this via the To() initializer will be released on 2020-06-24.

[keatbro]

Was support for the To() initializer actually released? I'm trying a similar setup to this initial issue and running into an error Substitutions may not be used with dynamic templating. I'm using the latest SendGrid python package