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Troubleshooting creation of new customer in testing

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david.ells

28 Sep, 2009 08:44 PM

I'm testing out the CG api using my own java client library, but I'm running into an issue early on.

The following API call works just fine for adding a customer without credit card information to our trial plan:

URL: https://cheddargetter.com/xml/customers/new/productCode/SCORM_CLOUD...
post data:

code=EXAMPLE_CUSTOMER&email=test%40test.com&firstName=Example&subscription%5BplanCode%5D=SCORM_CLOUD_TRIAL&company=Test+Inc.&lastName=Customer

However, with everything else equal, the following call results in a 412 response:

URL: https://cheddargetter.com/xml/customers/new/productCode/SCORM_CLOUD...
post data:

subscription%5BccExpiration%5D=04-2011&code=EXAMPLE_CUSTOMER&subscription%5BccLastName%5D=Customer&email=test%40test.com&firstName=Example&subscription%5BccZip%5D=90210&subscription%5BccNumber%5D=4111111111111111&subscription%5BccFirstName%5D=Example&subscription%5BplanCode%5D=SCORM_CLOUD_LITTLE&company=Test+Inc.&lastName=Customer

Can you see any reason why I'm running into problems with the second test?

Also, is there any way to get more detailed information when an API call fails? A response of 412 leaves me in the dark about what parameter may be invalid or missing.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Marc Guyer on 28 Sep, 2009 08:58 PM

   

   David - The response should contain information about the missing or
   invalid parameter. A small XML document with an error node is returned.

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2. 2 Posted by david.ells on 28 Sep, 2009 09:19 PM

   

   Marc, thank you. That was one part misreading the error message section on the API page and one part being a java dummy and forgetting about getErrorStream() on a URLConnection. Thanks, I can see a much more informative error message now, which actually tells me that the subscription[ccExpirationDate] should be in MM/YYYY format, not MM-YYYY, as listed in the API doc.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Marc Guyer on 29 Sep, 2009 03:32 PM

   

   Oops. Just corrected the docs. Thanks for letting us know.

   Yeah -- I remember how java didn't think it should give you the body of an error document without jumping through some hoops. That's annoying. There's a similar annoyance in .Net I've heard.

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Marc Guyer on 05 Oct, 2009 07:21 PM

   

   Will you be making your java client publicly available?
   

   If nothing else, I'd greatly appreciate a bit of sample java code.

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5. 5 Posted by david.ells on 06 Oct, 2009 08:25 PM

   

   Absolutely. Just need to clean it up a bit, but was certainly planning on it. Is there a preferred method to share the code? Github?

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6. Support Staff 6 Posted by Marc Guyer on 06 Oct, 2009 10:12 PM

   

   Good news!

   All of the other API wrappers are on GitHub so that would make the most sense. It's up to you though.

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7. Marc Guyer closed this discussion on 06 Oct, 2009 10:12 PM.

8. Marc Guyer re-opened this discussion on 18 Mar, 2010 04:28 PM

9. Support Staff 7 Posted by Marc Guyer on 18 Mar, 2010 04:28 PM

   

   Hello again David! Are you ready to release your Java wrapper to the world?

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10. 8 Posted by Jack Li on 26 May, 2010 05:13 PM

    

    Hey David,

    I am interested in your Java wrapper for CG. Can you release your code on github? Thanks for your help

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11. 9 Posted by Tryggvi Larusso... on 15 Jun, 2010 10:16 AM

    

    Hey David,

    I'm also interested in your Java Wrapper for CG. Would be brilliant to get it out on github. Thanks in advance!

    Tryggvi

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12. 10 Posted by david.ells on 27 Apr, 2011 10:21 PM

    

    I know it's monstrously overdue, but we've finally published our CheddarGetter java wrapper as a public repository on GitHub. https://github.com/RusticiSoftware/CheddarClient

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13. Support Staff 11 Posted by Marc Guyer on 28 Apr, 2011 07:23 PM

    

    Very cool David. We'll put the word out.

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14. Marc Guyer closed this discussion on 28 Apr, 2011 07:23 PM.