Error: Only one section allowed for replacement

[wcatron]

When calling editDocument with operation REPLACE_SECTION I get this error consistently. I'm only trying to replace one section, however I want to replace all the content within that section. Is this not the expected use case? Can I change the contents of an entire section without deleting and a new one in the same place in the document? Perhaps this is a by-product of the issue but I have a lot of orphaned sections when I inspect the document.

{ 
  "threadId": "WabAAARi2ls",
  "operation": 4,
  "sectionId": "WabACApQqhG",
  "content": "'<li>List item A</li><li>List item B</li><li>List item C</li><li>List item D</li><li>List Item E</li>' 
}

[bthomas-Palantir]

Each list item gets its own section_id on creation, hence the error; the operation can only deal with a single section at a time. This is a bummer, because I'd like to replace all the content under a certain heading, but that's not what "section" means in Quip.

[unsupo]

Same issue when editing a table.
You'd think a whole table is a section, but turns out each row is a section.

Not sure is this is a viable solution, but maybe delete the thread and recreate it with the content you want.
Or run multiple requests to update all rows or list items in your case.