topic Re: CER config API issues in Management

CER config API issues

Elliot Dierksen — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:17:09 GMT

I am not able to make changes via API to CER v14. I am always getting back a 400 - bad request. I got past the read portion of CER after I figured out that you have to parse out the 'Set-Cookie' header and send it back in a subsequent request as a 'Cookie' header. All my GET requests are working great. I am trying to send JSON for the request based on the documentation examples at https://developer.cisco.com/docs/cer-config/ but no joy so far. Does it actually accept JSON, or do I need to convert this to XML? I noticed the XML version for updating a user group was inside a tag of

updateUserGroupRequest

but the JSON example looks like you just send the elements like this.

cer_base_url5 = '/cerappservices/service/usergroup/' update_group = { "userGroupName": admg_name, "addUsersToGroup": { "user": [ adm_user ] } qupd = requests.put(cer_full_url5,auth=req_dauth,verify=False,headers=json_hdr,data=update_group)

It seems like I must missing a small detail, but I haven't been able to figure it out.

Re: CER config API issues

bigevilbeard — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:38:03 GMT

Not sure this is required, in your request include a content-type header set with application/json, so this his explicitly tells the server you are sending json data, try....

json_hdr = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}

If this does not work, print the content from requests.put call as it might provide more specific error details for you here.

Hope this helps.

Re: CER config API issues

Elliot Dierksen — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:59:18 GMT

I am not getting any content back from the failed 400 put.

update_group {'userGroupName': 'CER System Administrator', 'addUsersToGroup': {'user': ['A1-sharonhe']}} update usergroup A1-sharonhe status code 400 URL https://fon-rc-cer01.orhs.org/cerappservices/service/usergroup/ use_hdr {'Cookie': 'JSESSIONID=D2D7D271F1A85F0DDF4DFD0F28272DEF', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'} response content b''

Re: CER config API issues

Elliot Dierksen — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:05:23 GMT

After beating my head against a wall for too long, I gave up on JSON. I was able to make it work with XML. SIgh....

Edit: I think the documentation lies. Maybe V15 supports JSON, but it sure doesn't seem like V14 does.

Re: CER config API issues

bigevilbeard — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:34:53 GMT

That would seem odd that v14 does and now v15 does not? Sadly i do not know how to get that question answered for sure, but looks like you have proved it never the less! Congrats? 😉

Re: CER config API issues

Elliot Dierksen — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:31:11 GMT

Perhaps there is some other mystical incantation required for JSON, but I have not been able to decipher it. If that is the case, that says not so good things about the documentation....