# ImageKit: API docs can document params the SDK lacks

## TL;DR

If ImageKit rejects a documented upload parameter, check whether your SDK version exposes it. The Upload API docs can be ahead of the SDKs: pre and post transformations were documented before the Python SDK supported them. Pin a recent SDK and pass upload options the SDK actually accepts.

Use this when you run into the situation in the title.

**When not to use this skill:** unrelated tasks. It covers only the procedure above.

## Compatibility

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## Details

Context: GitHub issue (imagekit-developer/imagekit-python #59): a user tried passing a transformation argument with pre and post entries to UploadFileRequestOptions, matching the server-side Upload API docs, and got 'unexpected keyword argument transformation'. The maintainer confirmed pre and post transformations were not yet supported in the Python SDK and pointed to version 4.0.0 for the file upload example. Gotcha that trips agents: the API reference documents parameters the SDKs do not expose yet, so read the SDK docs for your language, not just the API reference.

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