Login POST JSON Error

[rmsiegel]

All,

I'm new to Alfresco trying to learn the API. I'm trying to do what I thought should be a straight-forward command. I'm using CURL to send my commands to Alfresco. My CURL command is:

c:\> curl -X POST -d @login.json "http://192.168.0.151:8080/alfresco/service/api/login"

My JSON file is this:

{"username":"bob","password":"bob"}

The error response I'm getting is this:

{
    "status" :
  {
    "code" : 400,
    "name" : "Bad Request",
    "description" : "Request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect."
  },

  "message" : "03170015 Unable to parse JSON POST body: A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 0",
  "exception" : "org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.WebScriptException - 03170015 Unable to parse JSON POST body: A JS
ONObject text must begin with '{' at character 0",

  "callstack" :
  [
          ""      ,"org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.WebScriptException: 03170015 Unable to parse JSON POST body: A
JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 0"
      ,"org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.bean.LoginPost.executeImpl(LoginPost.java:87)"
      ,"org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeWebScript.executeImpl(DeclarativeWebScript.java:235)"
      ,"org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeWebScript.execute(DeclarativeWebScript.java:64)"
      ,"org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer$2.execute(RepositoryContainer.java:410)"
      ,"org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:388)"
      ,"org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.transactionedExecute(RepositoryContainer.java:479)"
      ,"org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.transactionedExecuteAs(RepositoryContainer.java:517)"
      ,"org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.executeScript(RepositoryContainer.java:278)"
      ,"org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:377)"
      ,"org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:209)"
      ,"org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServlet.service(WebScriptServlet.java:118)"
      ,"javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)"
      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)"
      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)"
      ,"org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.GlobalLocalizationFilter.doFilter(GlobalLocalizationFilter.java:61)"
      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)"
      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)"
      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)"
      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)"
      ,"org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:470)"
      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)"
      ,"org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)"
      ,"org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)"
      ,"org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293)"
      ,"org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:877)"
      ,"org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:594)"
      ,"org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1675)"
      ,"java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)"

  ],

  "server" : "Enterprise v4.1.3 (97) schema 5,118",
  "time" : "Apr 17, 2013 3:09:45 PM"
}

I figure I'm doing something very basic incorrectly but cannot see it.

Any ideas?

TIA,
Bob S.

[mitpatoliya]

I think it is GET not POST webscript.

[koopa]

The problem here is that you have to add the content type to your request. Like:

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/login" -d "{'username':'admin','password':'admin'}" -H "Content-Type: application/json‍

[sandeepthukral]

I registered with this forum just to say Thanks to you. The suggestion of placing content-type application/json saved the day for me.