How to respond that a function call is successful

API Bugs
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I have a FastAPI backend sending requests to responses-api and I’m using a chat prompt created here with a tool/function defined: Chat - OpenAI API

I have a first call that look like this:

response = await client.responses.create(

    prompt={

        "id": prompt_id,

        "variables": {

            "current_datetime": datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),

         },

    },

    input=message

)

That call successfully gets a response back and returns a function_call.
I make the function call, complete it, and want to call response-api again to confirm the result of the function call.

I’ve read and following the instructions here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/responses/create and for the life of me I can’t get it to work.

If I understand correctly, my request should look like this:

    await client.responses.create(
    input= [
        {
            "input item list": [
                {
                    "item": {
                        "function tool call output": {
                            "call_id": function_call_id,
                            "output": {"status": "success"},
                            "type": "function_call_output",
                            "status": "completed"
                        },
                        "input message": {
                            "role": "user",
                            "status": "completed"
                        },
                    },
                },
            ],
        },
    ],
    prompt={
        "id": prompt_id,
        "variables": {
            "current_datetime": datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
         },
    },
)

I get errors such as: Error code: 400 - {‘error’: {‘message’: “Invalid value: ‘’. Supported values are: ‘assistant’, ‘system’, ‘developer’, and ‘user’.”, ‘type’: ‘invalid_request_error’, ‘param’: ‘input[0]’, ‘code’: ‘invalid_value’}}
which, if I understand correctly, is asking for something that isn’t part of the structure of the documentation.

Anyway, I include a role field it’s asking for, but keep getting errors.

openai.BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {‘error’: {‘message’: “Unknown parameter: ‘input[0].input item list’.”, ‘type’: ‘invalid_request_error’, ‘param’: ‘input[0].input item list’, ‘code’: ‘unknown_parameter’}}

whereas “input item list” is part of the documentation.

Anyone has any insights, ideas? Thanks in advance.

2

Besides ‘documents’ instead of API Reference, here’s some reading with Python for you.

At the end of following through, and executing the code snippets as a file or in a notebook environment, you will have responded to an AI’s function call with results and gotten a new response.

The API Reference has objects with names for the schema (dict) that are not names sent to the API.

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Thank you! I had not come across that thread in my research.

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