Get tag ID by name?

Development Plugins
1

I’m probably missing something obvious. In my plugin, I need to ensure a note has the tag ‘X’.

I can do:

const tagObj = await joplin.data.post(['tags'], null, { title: tag });
await joplin.data.post(['tags', tagObj.id, 'notes'], null, { id: noteId });

which works when the tag does not exist yet.
I see the method for data.get which seems to take a "query" parameter; but I haven't been able to make it work with any query I tried, I always got all the tags back; same with the 'search' endpoint.

Can anybody tell me what am I doing wrong?

2

I don't think there's a way to do this so you'd have to fetch all the tags to find the one you're interested in.

3

It should be possible to get the tag from the search endpoint (see python script).

Python script 
from joppy.client_api import ClientApi

# Create a new Api instance.
api = ClientApi(token=TOKEN)

# create tag
id_created = api.add_tag(title="abc")

# search for tag
search_results = api.search_all(query="abc", type="tag")
assert len(search_results) == 1
id_searched = search_results[0].id

# verify that the correct tag was found
assert id_created == id_searched
print(id_searched)

# cleanup
api.delete_tag(id_searched)

Something confusing is that the query of the search endpoint is not the search query itself. I.e. the request to the search endpoint should look similar to this pseudocode: path=/search, query={'query': 'abc', 'type': 'tag'}.

4

Thanks to you both