From 0cc2cc390f18ea6165f4f5b0d71edd46227f4fa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Klaus Wakonig <klaus.wakonig@psi.ch>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 09:26:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] bug fix

---
 scilog/scilog.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scilog/scilog.py b/scilog/scilog.py
index 9ed13a5..798441a 100644
--- a/scilog/scilog.py
+++ b/scilog/scilog.py
@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ class SciLog():
     @pinned_to_logbook(["parentId", "ownerGroup", "accessGroups"])
     def send_message(self, msg, **kwargs):
         url = self.http_client.address + "/basesnippets"
-        payload = kwargs
         snippet = Paragraph()
         snippet.import_dict(kwargs)
-        snippet.textcontent = msg       
+        snippet.textcontent = msg     
+        payload = snippet.to_dict(include_none=False)  
         headers = HEADER_JSON.copy()
         return Basesnippet.from_http_response(self.http_client.post_request(url, payload=payload, headers=headers))