I'm writing one of my first apps for consuming a web service in Objective C, it's a Lighthouse API client. I'm able to execute all the GETs and XML parsing correctly and quickly, but I'm having extreme trouble trying to create a new ticket via POST (http://lighthouseapp.com/api).
I'm using ASIHTTPRequest.
I tried including the parameters on the URL (i.e. POST /projects/#{project_id}/tickets.xml?title=boo).
I've tried putting the ticket XML in the request body.
<ticket><title>boo</title></ticket>
Nothing is working. (server always sends a response back saying it needs a title) I'm very new to web services - am I missing something obvious?
I had a quick look at the Lighthouse API and here's how you go about creating a new ticket.
Request URL is http://{yourCustomURL}.lighthouseapp.com/projects/{ProjectID}/tickets.xml where {ProjectID} is a 5 digit number - in my case 72945.
Method is POST
Content type should be set to application/xml
Body should be in the format below. All fields are optional so I only included the title
<ticket> <assigned-user-id type="integer"></assigned-user-id> <body></body> <milestone-id type="integer"></milestone-id> <state></state> <title>Testing new ticket creation</title></ticket>
(sorry about the formatting of the code above, SO doesn't seem to like XML formatted code somehow?
This worked for me with a new ticket created under projectID 72945 - response received was 201 Created
If you want to make sure your POST request is working before diving into ASIHTTPRequest, download a Firefox add-on called POSTER from here. This will allow you to send an authenticated post request with all the fields above. Once you get that working, it should be a piece of cake to get ASIHTTPRequest to do the same.
Related
I know this is probably strictly case-specific, but I do feel like I encounter this problem a lot so I will make an effort to try and understand it better.
I am new to using APIs, but I have never succeeded in using one without copying someone's code. In this case, I can't even find any examples on forums, nor in the API documentation.
I'm trying to pull my balance value from my investment bank "NordNet" to scroll, amongst other things, on an Arduino display I've made. Right now I use python Selenium to automatically but "physically" login to NordNet and grab my balance from the DOM. As I'm afraid I might get "punished" for such botted behavior, and because the script is fairly high maintenance (as the HTML changes over time), I would obviously much rather get this information through NordNet's new API.
Link to NordNets API doc
Every time I try to utilize an API doc it's always the same, it looks easy, but I can never get it to work.
This time I tried to just play a little with the API before exploring further.
I use PostMan to send the simplest request:
https://www.nordnet.se/api/2
And I get a successful code 200 JSON response.
I then try to take it a step further to access my account data using this endpoint:
https://www.nordnet.se/api/2/accounts
For this one, I obviously need some authentication of some sort
The doc looks like this:
So I set my PostMan client up like this and get the response showcased:
I've put my NordNet login into the "Auth" tab as "basic auth" and I then see PostMan encrypts this info some way, in the "Headers" tab.
I'm getting an unauthorized response code and I have no idea why. Am I using PostMan wrong (probably)? Is the API faulty (probably not)? There is a mention of a session_id that should contain both password and username? Maybe something completely else...
I hope you can help
The documentation says to use session_id as username and password for that api ,
so try logging in and then get the session id (try with both sid and ssid) . from network tab and pass it as username and password for authorization .
sid- is for http and ssid for https i guess , try with both
Is there a specific request format that the webhooks have? I am using the Pull Request Updated event, and I am trying to deserialize into a class, but I do not know what fields I will need. Is there a class or example of the request content details for the different events?
As far as I know, there isn't a generic template for the HTTP post request/response from TFS.
The TFS HTTP post JSON request/response format is based on the specific action.
For example, for the web hooks whenever a work item is updated.If I update a description field, I am getting one format and if I add a child work item, I am getting another format.
However for the specific event, you can check the response format, then get the useful information which you needed.
Please refer to Send JSON representation to a service for more information.
And at the end of the Q&A part there is a sample JSON.
I was checking on Postman and newman and how to automate the api testing. I have checked on assertions and the report generations that show results of assertion failures and pass status. We can check the status code by writing a an assertion. But is there a way where in we can capture the request and response directly for an api and generate a report that shows (say) 3 apis were tested and the requests agve 200 for first call 201 fro second an d then 400 for third without writing any assertions. The overall result will show request url and corresponding response code for the api.
This will be helpful in a way when we run a collection and then can see a html report stating the response code corresponding to the request url.
Thank you all in advance for your patience reading and extremely helpful insight to the problem. Thank You.
this already exists in Postman, through its command line interface Newman.
Have a look here and here as well.
You'll be able to set options, depending on the kind of reports you want.
Personaly I can use newman in TFS and get JUnit style reports that fit for my continuous integration purpose. You can generate also HTML reports.
Check the different options.
To handle response data, have a look here :
This takes place in the Tests tab of the Postman request, though
You can obtain informations about HTTP code (responseCode.code), description (responseCode.detail), etc.
You can also parse the JSON body to get more information
var jsonData = JSON.parse(responseBody);
You can output this data in the console
I have a vb.NET App that uses System.Net.WebClient to query an API. I'm able to get the information I'm requesting just fine.
The people that supply the API are requesting that I
"set a custom User header when requesting data to determine the source application."
Am I supposed to pre-send something first, or append something to the url for the WebClient to processes? The API only accepts get requests and it doesn't have a parameter for an identification.
I'm stuck in terminology here. A search for that phrase, here, came up with server-side topics so I don't know what to look for. Can someone translate?
Using the Contact API v3 I had a working implementation for uploading a photo to an existing contact.
Since a couple of weeks this fails with 404. The implementation has not been changed when the API servers started to sent back 404s and I don't see any indication what exactly changed and would result now in the 404s.
I'm using HTTP PUT + the photo URL of the contact.
One interesting observation I made was that the contact's self-URL changes which each request (the provided details are still always the same and correct).
Did anyone notice something similar ?
Edit: Link to issue: http://code.google.com/a/google.com/p/apps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=3301&q=contact&colspec=API%20ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Stars%20Opened%20Summary
tried different photo formats and sizes, different content types and even photos which had been uploaded previously (when it was still working). Nothing changed the behaviour of returning 404.
w.r.t to change contact ids: the contact ID changes between API invocations. I first thought it could be related to reopened connection( no keep-alive) that contact ids change. However what speaks against this being the cause of the issue is that first retrieving a contact and then editing a contact's address is possible without any issues.
authentication does not seem to be problem as well - otherwise editing a contact's address would not work as well.
PS: I'm using the JSON output format when retrieving the contact.
PS2: s/GET/PUT in step 3 ( I tried to change PUT to GET to see if it still returns 404... which it does).
PS3: am not using any client library but implement the protocol directly (which should not be relevant for the HTTP PUT on the photo link
After hours of investigation I found out that this is particular an issue using OAuth1. Using OAuth2 the exact same photo links which had been returned when requesting a specific contact record using OAuth1 work and return the photo data on HTTP GET. I expect HTTP PUT for photo links using OAuth2 to succeed as well.
Remains open if if there's some kind of workaround for OAuth1.