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REST API. Update of User/UserGr. not possible (5.11)

udoderk — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:21:04 GMT

Hi activiti core team:-)Introduction——————-User Guide (currently 5.12) describes, that POST http method must be used to create an user or an user group. But i found such githubentry:The user guide (5.9-5.12) lists the creation of user and groups going through the POST http method, however the code i

Re: REST API. Update of User/UserGr. not possible (5.11)

frederikherema1 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:08:30 GMT

We're planning a major review of the REST-API in 5.13, to have a very big coverage of the Java API, reviewing all existing REST-methods as well…

Re: REST API. Update of User/UserGr. not possible (5.11)

augustus — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:48:02 GMT

When it is planned to release the 5.13 REST-API version? Until you do that can you tell us whether is possible or not to create users and groups via REST and how?

Re: REST API. Update of User/UserGr. not possible (5.11)

augustus — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:47:16 GMT

When I try to use post to create a new group I get the "method not allowed" error message.
When I try to use put to create a new group I get the message "forbidden".

What do I need to do in order to successfully create a group via REST? Login is working but it only respond with status OK 200 so I'm not sure how to authenticate on each other REST call.

Re: REST API. Update of User/UserGr. not possible (5.11)

frederikherema1 — Wed, 22 May 2013 05:59:49 GMT

You should also use BASIC authentication when performing the PUT.

Re: REST API. Update of User/UserGr. not possible (5.11)

augustus — Wed, 22 May 2013 10:46:01 GMT

Sorry, my bad, who reads the fucking manual anyway

Another thing: I'm testing all rest api calls you currently have and I'm having some doubts whether I'm doing it right or wrong.
For example if I run the following call: http://localhost:8081/activiti-rest/service/users?searchText=kermit
response I get is: {"data":[],"total":0,"start":0,"sort":"lastName","order":"asc","size":0}

With kermit I was able to authenticate the call. It might be I'm doing something wrong with parsing json response, but I can't be sure. Can anyway confirm that this query should return the kermit user data?

Here is the code example of invoking this call:
<java>
public void searchUser(){
Client client = Client.create();
client.addFilter(new HTTPBasicAuthFilter("kermit", "kermit"));
WebResource webResource = client
.resource("http://localhost:8081/activiti-rest/service/users?searchText=kermit");
ClientResponse response;
try {
response = webResource.type("application/json").get(ClientResponse.class);
String user = response.getEntity(String.class);
System.out.print("user: "+user);
} catch (UniformInterfaceException ue) {
System.out.print(ue.getMessage());
}
}
</java>

Re: REST API. Update of User/UserGr. not possible (5.11)

jbarrez — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:13:02 GMT

Yes it should. What does it do when you try 'searchText=%k%' ?

(probably you need to url encode the %

Re: REST API. Update of User/UserGr. not possible (5.11)

augustus — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:02:14 GMT

Same result

Are you able to confirm that it works for you in the demo rest war app?

Re: REST API. Update of User/UserGr. not possible (5.11)

trademak — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:38:04 GMT

The problem is that the query is case sensitive. So if you use searchText=ermit you will get a result back.

Best regards,

Re: REST API. Update of User/UserGr. not possible (5.11)

augustus — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:59:47 GMT

Oh I see now. It preform search on first and last name not id (username). Can't wait to see new REST API version

Thanks for the help!