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Re: Problem Posting to XML to Web API

 

Thank you!
I’ve also found that trying to delete OUs via the API causes a 504 Request method 'DELETE' not supported
Are we not able to delete OUs via the API? 


> On Jun 30, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Halvdan Grelland <halvdanhg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> I was able to reproduce the issue on our demo server. It seems to be due to the empty attributevalues-element. Removing it caused the import to work as expected. Why this is, however, I do not know. We are currently looking into a separate AttributeValue-related issue with the importer, which could be related. 
> 
> ---
> 
> Att: Morten:
> 
> The interesting part of the stack trace:
> 
> </pre></p><p><b>root cause</b> <pre>java.lang.NullPointerException
> 	org.hisp.dhis.dxf2.metadata.importers.DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter$NonIdentifiableObjects.extractAttributeValues(DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter.java:1121)
> 	org.hisp.dhis.dxf2.metadata.importers.DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter$NonIdentifiableObjects.extract(DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter.java:944)
> 	org.hisp.dhis.dxf2.metadata.importers.DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter.newObject(DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter.java:305)
> 	org.hisp.dhis.dxf2.metadata.importers.DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter.startImport(DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter.java:525)
> 	org.hisp.dhis.dxf2.metadata.importers.DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter.importObjectLocal(DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter.java:511)
> 	org.hisp.dhis.dxf2.metadata.importers.DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter.importObject(DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter.java:210)
> 	org.hisp.dhis.dxf2.metadata.importers.DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter.importObject(DefaultIdentifiableObjectImporter.java:102)
> 	org.hisp.dhis.dxf2.metadata.DefaultImportService.doImport(DefaultImportService.java:281)
> 	org.hisp.dhis.dxf2.metadata.DefaultImportService.importObject(DefaultImportService.java:115)
> 
> Regards,
> Halvdan
> 
> 2015-06-30 19:05 GMT+02:00 Dan Cocos <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>:
> Hi All,
> 
> I’m trying to post a simple XML file to create an OU the following is curl call and the contents of the file (ou.xml)
> 
> curl -d @ou.xml "https://example.com/api/organistaionUnits <https://example.com/api/organistaionUnits>" -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/xml"  -u admin:district
> 
> <organisationUnit id="IheTV7ihHgI" level="6" name="Test" shortName="TEST" xmlns="http://dhis2.org/schema/dxf/2.0 <http://dhis2.org/schema/dxf/2.0>">
>         <externalAccess>false</externalAccess>
>         <openingDate>2015-05-20T23:00:00.000+0000</openingDate>
>         <displayName>Test</displayName>
>         <parent id="OqNfa8dQ546" />
>         <users/>
>         <organisationUnitGroups/>
>         <children/>
>         <dataSets/>
>         <attributeValues/>
>         <userGroupAccesses/>
> </organisationUnit>
> 
> The server response is:
> org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException
> 
> 
> Does anyone have a working example of posting OUs to the web API?
> 
> Thank you,
> Dan
> 
> 
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