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Re: Attemping to post JSON through the web API

 

I don’t think you can post multiple, here’s some PHP code I wrote to add
them one by one they all had the same parent so my code is somewhat less
complex, you’ll have to have more arrays containing the correct parent and
other details for your OUs.


<?php//You need to make sure to add a ROOT unit and then make this set to
the root user$parentId = "JFSc3tndTlI";$instanceURL = "
http://localhost:8080/api/organisationUnits";$username = "admin";$password =
"district"; $countryNames = array("Angola", "Antigua and Barbuda", "Asia
Regional Program", "Bahamas, The", "Barbadas", "Belize - Carribean", "Belize
- Central America", "Botswana", "Burma", "Burundi", "Cambodia",
"Cameroon", "Caribbean
Region", "Central America Region", "Central Asia Region", "China", "Democratic
Republic of the Congo", "Costa Rica", "Cote d'Ivoire", "Dominica", "Dominican
Republic", "El Salvador", "Ethiopia", "Ghana", "Grenada", "Guatemala",
"Guyana", "Haiti", "Honduras", "India", "Indonesia", "Jamaica", "Kazakhstan"
, "Kenya", "Kyrgyz Republic", "Laos", "Lesotho", "Malawi", "Mozambique",
"Namibia", "Nicaragua", "Nigeria", "Panama", "Papua New Guinea", "Russia",
"Rwanda", "Saint Kitts and Nevis", "Saint Lucia", "Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines", "South Africa", "South Sudan", "Suriname", "Swaziland",
"Tajikistan", "Tanzania", "Thailand", "Trinidad and Tobago", "Turkmenistan",
"Uganda", "Ukraine", "Uzbekistan", "Vietnam", "Zambia", "Zimbabwe"); //I
couldn't get DHIS2 to ingest with one call with several children so instead
I just make a bunch of calls.foreach($countryNames as $ouname){ $data =
array("name" => $ouname, "shortName" => $ouname, "parent" => array("id" =>
$parentId)); $data_string = json_encode($data);   $ch = curl_init(
$instanceURL); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST"); curl_setopt(
$ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string); curl_setopt($ch,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:
$password"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'Content-Type:
application/json', 'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string), 'Accept:
application/json', ) );  $result = curl_exec($ch); print $result . "\n";} ?>



On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Mark Polak <markpo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jason,
>
> I tried to look up if it was possible to post a list and from what i can
> tell you can’t post a list of objects currently.
>
> But Morten would have to clarify that as i am not 100% sure if that is
> correct.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mark Polak
> mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> markpo@xxxxxxxxxx
> +31 6 38 600 925
>
> On 14 Aug 2014, at 21:03, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot post it a public list, but I think I may be
> missing some brackets etc.
>
> Basically, I need to sync some orgunits between instances with JSON (after
> a bit of processing).
>
> Will the below work (in theory)? I could not really find an example of
> POSTing multiple orgunits with JSON through the API in the docs.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
> {
>     "orgunits": [
>         {
>             "code": "XXXXX",
>             "name": "XXXXX",
>             "created": "2013-03-14T06:17:28.334+0000",
>             "lastUpdated": "2014-05-27T09:45:58.804+0000",
>             "shortName": "XXXX",
>             "parent": {
>                 "name": "XXXX",
>                 "created": "2012-07-14T18:57:55.059+0000",
>                 "lastUpdated": "2013-09-02T08:04:08.693+0000",
>                 "href": "XXXXXXX",
>                 "id": "XXXXXX"
>             },
>             "openingDate": "1900-01-01",
>             "active": true,
>             "contactPerson": "XXXX",
>             "address": "XXXXXX",
>             "email": "XXXXXX",
>             "phoneNumber": "XXXXXX",
>             "level": 5,
>             "href": "XXXXXX",
>             "id": "XXXX"
>         } ]}
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Mark Polak <markpo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hey Jason,
>>
>> Perhaps it could also be useful if you provide the JSON you’re sending?
>> That might make it easier to figure out why it happened :)
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Mark Polak
>> mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> markpo@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> On 14 Aug 2014, at 17:25, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Morten,
>>
>> I am trying to post some JSON to the /api/organisationUnit end point. I
>> think it looks OK (???) but am something does not seem to be right. I see
>> this exception. Could you translate for me? :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
>> SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [webapi] in context with path
>> [/dhis] threw exception
>> com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Can not deserialize
>> instance of org.hisp.dhis.organisationunit.OrganisationUnit out of
>> START_ARRAY token
>>  at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@1d72f464;
>> line: 1, column: 1]
>>         at
>> com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException.from(JsonMappingException.java:164)
>>         at
>> com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.mappingException(DeserializationContext.java:691)
>>         at
>> com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.mappingException(DeserializationContext.java:685)
>>         at
>> com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.deserializeFromArray(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1215)
>>         at
>> com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer._deserializeOther(BeanDeserializer.java:151)
>>         at
>> com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:126)
>>         at
>> com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._readMapAndClose(ObjectMapper.java:2993)
>>         at
>> com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:2144)
>>         at
>> org.hisp.dhis.dxf2.render.DefaultRenderService.fromJson(DefaultRenderService.java:79)
>>         at
>> org.hisp.dhis.webapi.controller.AbstractCrudController.postJsonObject(AbstractCrudController.java:352)
>>         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>>         at
>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
>>         at
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>>         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:215)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:132)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.java:104)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandleMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:745)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:685)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:80)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:919)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:851)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:953)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:855)
>>         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:646)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:829)
>>         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:330)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.invoke(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:118)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.doFilter(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:84)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:113)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.session.SessionManagementFilter.doFilter(SessionManagementFilter.java:103)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.java:113)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.servletapi.SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.java:154)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.savedrequest.RequestCacheAwareFilter.doFilter(RequestCacheAwareFilter.java:45)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.authentication.www.BasicAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(BasicAuthenticationFilter.java:201)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.java:199)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.java:199)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.hisp.dhis.security.filter.CustomAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(CustomAuthenticationFilter.java:64)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.authentication.logout.LogoutFilter.doFilter(LogoutFilter.java:110)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.hisp.dhis.security.filter.AutomaticAccessFilter.doFilter(AutomaticAccessFilter.java:113)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.context.request.async.WebAsyncManagerIntegrationFilter.doFilterInternal(WebAsyncManagerIntegrationFilter.java:50)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:106)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.java:87)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy.doFilterInternal(FilterChainProxy.java:192)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:160)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.invokeDelegate(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:343)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.doFilter(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:260)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter.doFilterInternal(OpenSessionInViewFilter.java:151)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:106)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:88)
>>         at
>> org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:106)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:220)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:122)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:501)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:170)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:408)
>>         at
>> org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1040)
>>         at
>> org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:607)
>>         at
>> org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:313)
>>         at
>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
>>         at
>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
>>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
>>
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