Validation errors for PresenceItem #85
Description
I am using a script that relies on 'xbox-webapi-python', but I noticed that your fork is actually maintained, so I thought I'd bring my issue here.
The issue is that within pythonxbox\api\provider\presence\__init__.py, I am getting errors, even with your code base, of:
1 validation error for PresenceItem devices.0.titles.1.activity Input should be a valid array [type=list_type, input_value={'richPresence': 'The City: The Theater'}, input_type=dict] For further information visit https://errors.pydantic.dev/2.12/v/list_type
The line that causes the issues is the last one in get_presence:
return PresenceItem.model_validate_json(resp.text)
I noticed that the response from Xbox does not give an error when it's like this:
{
'xuid': '2535468411947698',
'state': 'Online',
'devices': [{
'type': 'Scarlett',
'titles': [{
'id': '750323071',
'name': 'Home',
'placement': 'Background',
'state': 'Active',
'lastModified': '2026-01-20T22:32:36.7770783'
}, {
'id': '1870487792',
'name': 'NBA 2K26',
'placement': 'Full',
'state': 'Active',
'lastModified': '2026-01-20T22:32:36.7770783'
}
]
}
]
}
but it does give an error when it's this:
{
'xuid': '2535468411947698',
'state': 'Online',
'devices': [{
'type': 'Scarlett',
'titles': [{
'id': '750323071',
'name': 'Home',
'placement': 'Background',
'state': 'Active',
'lastModified': '2026-01-20T22:32:36.7770783'
}, {
'id': '1870487792',
'activity': {
'richPresence': 'The City'
},
'name': 'NBA 2K26',
'placement': 'Full',
'state': 'Active',
'lastModified': '2026-01-20T22:33:22.3885066'
}
]
}
]
}
The part that is causing the error is this:
'activity': { 'richPresence': 'The City' },
And if I change the last line to the following, removing the 'activity' section, it no longer fails:
data = resp.json()
# Iterate through each device
for device in data.get('devices', []):
# Iterate through each title in that device
for title in device.get('titles', []):
# Remove 'activity' if it exists
title.pop('activity', None)
json_string = json.dumps(data)
return PresenceItem.model_validate_json(json_string)
This page from Microsoft shows a sample PresenceRecord response that includes the 'activity' section:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/gdk/docs/reference/live/rest/uri/presence/uri-usersmeget
And if I force that exact response into get_presence as follows, it also generates errors for the 'activity' section:
json_string = """
{
"xuid": "0123456789",
"state": "online",
"devices": [
{
"type": "D",
"titles": [
{
"id": "12341234",
"name": "Contoso 5",
"state": "active",
"placement": "fill",
"timestamp": "2012-09-17T07:15:23.4930000",
"activity": {
"richPresence": "Team Deathmatch on Nirvana"
}
},
{
"id": "12341235",
"name": "Contoso Waypoint",
"timestamp": "2012-09-17T07:15:23.4930000",
"placement": "snapped",
"state": "active",
"activity": {
"richPresence": "Using radar"
}
}
]
},
{
"type": "W8",
"titles": [
{
"id": "23452345",
"name": "Contoso Gamehelp",
"state": "active",
"placement": "full",
"timestamp": "2012-09-17T07:15:23.4930000",
"activity": {
"richPresence": "Nirvana page"
}
}
]
}
]
}
"""
return PresenceItem.model_validate_json(json_string)
The errors:
3 validation errors for PresenceItem
devices.0.titles.0.activity
Input should be a valid array [type=list_type, input_value={'richPresence': 'Team Deathmatch on Nirvana'}, input_type=dict]
For further information visit https://errors.pydantic.dev/2.12/v/list_type
devices.0.titles.1.activity
Input should be a valid array [type=list_type, input_value={'richPresence': 'Using radar'}, input_type=dict]
For further information visit https://errors.pydantic.dev/2.12/v/list_type
devices.1.titles.0.activity
Input should be a valid array [type=list_type, input_value={'richPresence': 'Nirvana page'}, input_type=dict]
For further information visit https://errors.pydantic.dev/2.12/v/list_type
And these errors are pydantic not liking something about what should be a valid JSON from Xbox.
How to formally solve?
@tr4nt0r
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