Filtering Actors via API Help

[iloveparks 7]

Hello all - I am back again...

I'm struggling to filter people based on Person and PersonType.

I'm using /Users/{UserId}/Items with the following params:

recursive = true

ParentId = <id of library>

Fields = People

Person = Paul Lieberstein

PersonTypes = writer

Swagger says that if you specify PersonType along with Person, you will only receive filtered results for that specific PersonType, yet I continue to receive results containing the specified person, regardless of if they are an Actor/Writer/Director, etc.

As an example, Paul Lieberstein is a writer and actor in many episodes of The Office, but no matter how I run my query, the API returns all the episodes he is in.

Here he is as a GuestStar

 

And again as a director:

 

Any help is much appreciated!

[iloveparks 7]

@Luke - Is this another example where these params may not be officially implemented for this endpoint?

[Luke 42077]

OK currently these fields are only used when querying People, not by filtering media based on people. It's something that can be added though.

[iloveparks 7]

Ah ok, I see. Swagger makes it seem like these fields are valid for this endpoint.

 

[Luke 42077]

Yea it's just because we have one generalized request object for querying that is used in a lot of places and that causes swagger to think that.

[iloveparks 7]

Got it.

Last one..  for now..