Typesense JSON Decoding Issues

import json
import os
import sys
import typesense


curr_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
sys.path.insert(1, os.path.abspath(os.path.join(curr_dir, os.pardir)))


client = typesense.Client({
    'api_key': {key},
    'nodes': [{
        'host': {host},
        'port': '443',
        'protocol': 'https'
    }],
    'connection_timeout_seconds': 2
})

# Drop pre-existing collection if any
try:
    client.collections['books'].delete()
except Exception as e:
    pass

# Create a collection

create_response = client.collections.create({
    "name": "books",
    "fields": [
        {"name": "title", "type": "string"},
        {"name": "authors", "type": "string[]", "facet": True},
        {"name": "publication_year", "type": "int32", "facet": True},
        {"name": "ratings_count", "type": "int32"},
        {"name": "average_rating", "type": "float"},
        {"name": "image_url", "type": "string"}
    ],
    "default_sorting_field": "ratings_count"
})

print(create_response)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/philipjohnson/.asdf/installs/python/3.8.13/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 971, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/philipjohnson/.asdf/installs/python/3.8.13/lib/python3.8/json/__init__.py", line 357, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/Users/philipjohnson/.asdf/installs/python/3.8.13/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/Users/philipjohnson/.asdf/installs/python/3.8.13/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 29, in <module>
    create_response = client.collections.create({
  File "/Users/philipjohnson/.asdf/installs/python/3.8.13/lib/python3.8/site-packages/typesense/collections.py", line 18, in create
    return (Collections.RESOURCE_PATH, schema)
  File "/Users/philipjohnson/.asdf/installs/python/3.8.13/lib/python3.8/site-packages/typesense/api_call.py", line 141, in post
    return self.make_request(, endpoint, as_json,
  File "/Users/philipjohnson/.asdf/installs/python/3.8.13/lib/python3.8/site-packages/typesense/api_call.py", line 127, in make_request
    raise last_exception
  File "/Users/philipjohnson/.asdf/installs/python/3.8.13/lib/python3.8/site-packages/typesense/api_call.py", line 111, in make_request
    error_message = r.json().get('message', 'API error.')
  File "/Users/philipjohnson/.asdf/installs/python/3.8.13/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 975, in json
    raise RequestsJSONDecodeError(e.msg, e.doc, e.pos)
requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)