Python SDK User (role: guests) missing scope (account) / 401 Error

Hello everyone, I really hope someone can help me out here. I have been stuck on this issue since yesterday. So for my current project I am setting up a simple Login/ Registration workflow. For my app I'm using PyQt/PySide6 in combination with the Appwrite Python Server SDK to achieve this. I can without any issues create new users in the registration and in the login creating new sessions works without any issues at all using the create email password session function. My problems come now when I try to do any sort of session handling/management like getting a sessions list or updating a session as any other session operations other than creating one print this error. Has anyone experienced something similar and has maybe a solution? Also note that I'm specifically not using and dont want to use an API key on user authentication stuff for security reasons. But according to the docs an API key shouldn't be necessary anyways. I'll post the code down below as I'm running out of characters.

in raise_for_status raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self) requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://cloud.appwrite.io/v1/account/sessions

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: raise AppwriteException(response.json()['message'], response.status_code, response.json().get('type'), response.json()) appwrite.exception.AppwriteException: User (role: guests) missing scope (account)

TL;DR

Developers are facing a "User missing scope (account)" error (401 Unauthorized) when trying to handle sessions using the Appwrite Python SDK for a login/registration app with PyQt/PySide6. The issue might be due to the SDK not supporting session management properly for frontend tasks. A potential workaround includes using the REST API or customizing the Python SDK. It is suggested to optimize the Python server SDK for frontend usage.

TypeScript

from PySide6.QtWidgets import QWidget, QPushButton,QVBoxLayout,QFormLayout,QLineEdit,QLabel, QMessageBox
from PySide6.QtGui import Qt
from Application.AccountManagement.accountManager import AccountSession
from appwrite.exception import AppwriteException
import json


class Login(QWidget):

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

        layout = QVBoxLayout()

        self.session = AccountSession()

        title = QLabel("Login")
        title.setAlignment(Qt.AlignCenter)
        layout.addWidget(title)

        form_layout = QFormLayout()
        self.username_input = QLineEdit()
        self.password_input = QLineEdit()
        self.password_input.setEchoMode(QLineEdit.Password)
        form_layout.addRow("Username:", self.username_input)
        form_layout.addRow("Password:", self.password_input)
        layout.addLayout(form_layout)

        login_button = QPushButton("Login")
        login_button.clicked.connect(self.login)
        layout.addWidget(login_button)

        register_button = QPushButton("Register")
        register_button.clicked.connect(self.show_register_page)
        layout.addWidget(register_button)

        self.setLayout(layout)

    def login(self):
        username = self.username_input.text()
        password = self.password_input.text()

        try:
            active_session = self.session.account.create_email_password_session(email=username, password=password)
            active_session_id = active_session["$id"]

            sessions = self.session.account.list_sessions()
            print(sessions)



            with open('session.json', 'w') as f:
                json.dump(active_session,f,indent=4)

            QMessageBox.information(self, 'Success', 'Logged in successfully!')
            self.parent().setCurrentIndex(2)
        except AppwriteException as e:
            QMessageBox.warning(self,'Error', f'Login failed: {e.message}')

Maybe I'm wrong but I think the issue is the sdk itself. The python sdk is supposed to handle server tasks

TypeScript

from appwrite.client import Client
from appwrite.services.account import Account

class AccountSession:
    _instance = None

    def __new__(cls):
        if cls._instance is None:
            cls._instance = super(AccountSession, cls).__new__(cls)
        return cls._instance

    def __init__(self):
        if not hasattr(self,"_initialized"):
            self._initialized = True
            self._client = Client()
            (self._client
             .set_endpoint('endpoint')
             .set_project('project id')
             )

            self.account = Account(self._client)
            self._active_session = None




    @property
    def active_session(self):
        return self._active_session

    @active_session.setter
    def active_session(self, value):
        self._active_session = value

I don't think it is optimized for frontend stuff

thats what I thought hmm its a big bummer

looks like I'll have to use the REST API and build the workflow myself

You could take the python server sdk as baseline and improve upon that

its such a missed opportunity on their side, not supporting it alongside Java and C++ for Qt. I have been trying everything haha

yeaah. I'll wait though maybe someone has a miracle solution😅

I think you have to fork the sdk there is no way around that. Since the sdk is supposed to handle server tasks it probably did not implement any session management