Sidebar Fails to Update with subreddit.mod.update(description=x) Coroutine

[TheVexedGerman]

Describe the bug
Trying to edit a subreddit's sidebar via the subreddit.mod.update() coroutine fails silently.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create the subreddit object
2. Call the update coroutine on subreddit moderation with the description parameter
3. Check subreddit to see that the sidebar hasn't changed.

Expected behavior
The expected behavior is that the sidebar would be updated to the text passed as a parameter. Editing the wiki page at config/sidebar works as a workaround.

Code/Logs

@commands.command(name='edit_sidebar')
async def edit_sidebar_links(self, ctx, post_id: str):
    new_link = f'https://redd.it/{post_id}'
    sub = await self.reddit.subreddit(SUBREDDIT)
    await sub.load()

    description = sub.description
    description = re.sub(r'(?<=\[Meta Thread here\]\().*?(?=\))', new_link, description)
    await sub.mod.update(description=description)

System Info

• OS: Ubuntu 18.04
• Python: 3.8.0
• Async PRAW Version: 7.1.1

[LilSpazJoekp]

This is a bug that exists in both PRAW and Async PRAW. See here for a workaround: praw-dev/praw#1631.

[LilSpazJoekp]

This has been addressed by #77.

After doing some digging, it appears that the sidebar (description) is not accepted by the endpoint used by subreddit.mod.update. Moving forward the suggested way to update the sidebar is as follows:

subreddit = await reddit.subreddit("test")
sidebar = await subreddit.wiki.get_page("config/sidebar")
await sidebar.edit(content="new sidebar content")

See the note at the bottom of this page for more info.

Since this was addressed with #77, I will be closing this issue. Thanks for reporting this!