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phoneboy
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5 years ago

API request to Approve/Deny request to join a Group Hub Doesn't Seem to Work

I'm writing a component that will automatically approve a request to join a closed Group Hub. This will be included in the relevant page quilt and is intended to replicate the functionality of legac...
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phoneboy
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Tried that format, same result.
The error returned, if it's helpful:

{
 "status":"error",
 "message":"Membership Request not found.",
 "data": {
   "type":"error_data",
   "code":505,
   "developer_message":"",
   "more_info":""
 },
 "metadata":{}
}

 

Making the same call using restBuilder:

  <#assign approve = restBuilder()
    .method("PUT")
    .path("/nodes/grouphub:" + node + "/membership_requests")
    .body({ "data" : {
      "type": "membership_request",
      "approve_request": "true",
      "user_id": uid
    } })
    .admin(true) />
  <#assign resp = approve.call() />

 

I get the dreaded Freemarker error dump with this being the only potentially meaningful error:

Caused by: freemarker.template.TemplateModelException: unexpected exception during rest call: FreemarkerRestCall{version='2.0', restCall=RestCall{path=[nodes, grouphub:myCommunity, membership_requests], action=PUT}, adminCall=true, impersonationParameterSource=null}

On my page quilt, it says "Widget cannot be displayed."

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phoneboy
Director
5 years ago

Well, I figured out what the issue was.
On a lark, I tried a raw API call with curl, which actually worked:

 

phoneboy-cli:~ $ curl -u mystageuser:mystagepass -X PUT https://mystageurl/api/2.0/nodes/grouphub:myGroupHub/membership_requests -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'li-api-session-key: mysessiontoken' -d '{ "data": { "type": "membership_request", "approve_request": true, "user_id": 226 } } '

 

That helped me figure out uid was being interpreted as a string versus a number, which is what the API expects.
Somehow, I thought putting ?c would resolve this, but instead I need to replace  that with ?number.

Note this still doesn't solve the issue with restBuilder, which crashes even with the above change.
That said, I at least have a working solution now.

I really wish the Community API gave more meaningful error messages.
Most of the ones I've encountered have been...terribly unhelpful.