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    I have been attempting to add task notes in C# and am always getting a Error 400 Bad Request. I have gone through all the forum posts related to this and believe I am formulating the request correctly. Can some have a look and tell me where its going wrong. I have not problems sending a GET request its just POST and PUT.

    Here is the code.

    string xml = @"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""UTF-8""?><tasknote><taskid>11089</taskid><note>Test note</note></tasknote>";

    System.Net.HttpWebRequest req = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest) System.Net.WebRequest.Create(URI);
    req.Accept = "application/xml";
    req.ContentType = "application/xml";
    req.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(auth)));
    req.Method = "POST";

    // Add parameters to post
    byte[] data = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml);
    req.ContentLength = data.Length;
    System.IO.Stream os = req.GetRequestStream();
    os.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
    os.Close();

    // Do the post and get the response.
    System.Net.WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse();
    if (resp == null) return null;
    System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream());
    return sr.ReadToEnd().Trim();

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    Hey agledstone,

    Every failed request is returned with one or more verbose error messages within the response body. The response body also contains a specific error code related to the API.

    Can you give me more information about the errors you receive in the response body when you run that request?

    Thanks,
    Cameron

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    It looks like it could be a validation error. The tasknote resource documentation specifies that each new task note must specify a value for the public field (whether the task note is visible to executive-level users). That field does not appear to be present in the XML you are submitting to the server.

    Cameron

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    Thanks,

    I would have assumed that if you offer a default value of 'f' then it would not be required. But I tried that and it didn't work but I have since run Fiddler and determined that the issue was the task number. I assumed that the task number would relate the task number shown in intervals. But after doing a task list GETI can see that the numbers are different and obviously a global ID number that intervals is assigning it.

    This leads to another question. How do I search for a task using the ID shown on the tasks Intervals page. I could not see anything in the task API definition that represents this.

    Cheers
    Antony

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    Its ok I can see the localid filter option will give me that.

    Antony

    • cameron
    • Jun 27th 2013 edited @ 06/27/2013 8:16 am
     

    Looks like you've figured it out, but for any others:

    The Intervals API uses id fields for the purposes of filtering (for example, if a resource has a clientid field, it refers to the id of a client resource).

    There are several resources that use a localid field for the purposes of identifying the resource within the Intervals web application. However, it is used only for that, and is not used for foreign-keyed relationships between resources. You can think of it as you would a title field: useful for identification, but not for the purposes of defining relationships between objects.

    Cameron

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