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Re: Attemping to post JSON through the web API

 

Yeah, just to clarify, every endpoint (except /api/metadata) can only take
one single object. If you want to have multiple of one or more types, you
will have to post them through /api/metadata endpoint.

Good that you got it working :)

--
Morten


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Jason Pickering <
jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for all the tips and code.
>
> Changing "orgunits" to "organisationUnits" and posting to the /metaData
> endpoint seems to do the trick.
>
> Best regards,
> Jason
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Jan Henrik Øverland <
> janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> You are probably aware of this, but if there is no particular reason you
>> want to post to api/organisationUnits, it will work with multiple orgunits
>> if you wrap it like this
>>
>> {
>>     "organisationUnits": [
>>         ...,
>>         ...,
>>         ...,
>>         ...,
>>         etc
>>     ]
>> }
>>
>> and post it to api/metaData instead.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Dan Cocos <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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