Can't delete text from Google Doc

I’m trying to amend cells in a Google doc using their api. But I can’t seem to delete text from the tableCell.

I always get the invalid deletion range error. There is this duplicate question.

But the solution is what I’m already doing:

let requests = []; // I hold an instance of the table in the document. // The getCellAt(…) is a function to return the tableCell object. // It appears to work correctly: a breakpoint at this line and inspection // of the cell variable confirms this. let cell = this._tables[0].getCellAt(row, column); cell.content.forEach((cntnt) => { cntnt.paragraph.elements.forEach((element) => { let deletion = getNewDeleteRequest(); deletion.deleteContentRange.range.startIndex = element.startIndex; deletion.deleteContentRange.range.endIndex = element.endIndex - 1; //subtract 1 for the end newline deletion.deleteContentRange.range.tabId = this._documentTabID; // Ensure minimum of length 2 let deletionRange = deletion.deleteContentRange.range.endIndex - deletion.deleteContentRange.range.startIndex; if (deletionRange > 1) { // avoids deleting paragraphs just with single new lines requests.push(deletion); } }) }); return requests.reverse();

The helper function is:

/** * This is the structure for deleting text */ const deleteRequestTemplate = { deleteContentRange: { range: { startIndex: 10, endIndex: 50, tabId: "teb id" } } } // Return a perfect clone of the delete text template function getNewDeleteRequest() { return structuredClone(deleteRequestTemplate); }

Inserting text at the startIndex (using very similar helper function to the one above) works and subtracting 2 or 0 from the endIndex makes no difference.

As noted in one of the answers to the other SO question, there’s now only 5 of us using the api…..

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