How to remove empty members from a group

[LeoWelter]

I'm using the following code to get group info:
base="http://localhost:8080/" number=env("SIGNAL_PHONENUMBER") url=base + f"v1/groups/{number}" print(url) requests.get(url).json()

resulting in:
{'name': 'XXX', 'id': 'group......=', 'internal_id': '.....=', 'members': ['+1234567890', '', '', '', ''], 'blocked': False, 'pending_invites': [], 'pending_requests': [], 'invite_link': 'https://signal.group/.....', 'admins': ['+31234567890, '']}]
I want to get rid of the empty members in the group since they result in an error message* when sending a message to the group
# *error message: SignalCliRestApiError: Failed to send (some) messages:<deleted info>: Unregistered user "<deleted id>" (8 additional frame(s) were not displayed)

I tried to remove them through the signal app itself, but that does not seem to work.
I tried using a DELETE request as follows (probably obvious):

`data={"members": [""]}

base="http://localhost:8080/"
groupid="group.VXI1ODJnY01QcnBOckZiZVhNMVNGZVArcmtpS0lyNC9yUmRBUHhFWjV3Zz0="
number=env("SIGNAL_PHONENUMBER")
url=base + f"v1/groups/{number}/{groupid}/delete"
print(url)
result = requests.delete(url, json=data)
result.text
`

Any ideas?

[bbernhard]

Are you sure that those are empty members and not just members who have hidden their number? (see also #611)