Problems with users API

vijeetgv

I was using this software & really liked it & thought of making use of its api in an application. One of the requirements is to create a user & I see it just doesn't work. I've tried to follow the api doc on http://flarum.org/docs/api/
This is the POST request: http://prntscr.com/b3d92n
This is the response: http://prntscr.com/b3d9b2

I'm passing the params in the request body in JSON format & it doesn't seem to recognize any of them.
I've tried application/json as well as application/x-www-form-urlencoded request content-types but nothing works. Tried with multiple clients too but no luck.

Can anybody help?

datitisev

vijeetgv You have to use Json API

So the post request would be something like:

{
  data: {
    username: "username",
    email: "email@domain.com" ,
    password: "badPassword"
  }
}

vijeetgv

datitisev thanks for the response. I tried that & it still gives me same error.

Kulga

Here's a curl command to register a new user after doing it via firefox
Perhaps use /register instead of /api/users?

curl 'https://devflarum.xyzz.work/register' -X POST -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' -H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8' -H 'Host: devflarum.xyzz.work' -H 'Referer: https://devflarum.xyzz.work/' -d '{"username":"testuser8","email":"nullnull2@null.com","password":"apassword"}'

vijeetgv

Kulga ya that worked for me to & that's what I had to resort to. But shouldn't the POST to /api/users also do the same? Thanks for your response anyway.

AbhishekSagar

vijeetgv Flarum uses http://jsonapi.org/ format. @datitisev is almost right. You just need to wrap the attributes in an "attributes" key.

{
  data: {
    attributes: {
      username: "username",
      email: "email@domain.com" ,
      password: "badPassword"
    }
  }
}

vijeetgv

AbhishekSagar thanks. That works!

vijeetgv

BTW, I'm trying to do a PATCH request to same users api & that seems to work only when the application fires its ajax requests. When I do it from outside using authorization token, it doesn't work. Is modifying the user attributes allowed through external api requests?

Here's a sample request: http://prntscr.com/b5bor2

And here's the response: http://prntscr.com/b5bqdv

Any idea what am I doing wrong?

datitisev

Davis Then what vijeetgv did should work...

vijeetgv

Also DELETE requests do not work either.

Davis

Flarum uses:

app.request({
    method: 'PATCH',
    url: app.forum.attribute('apiUrl') + '/users/1',
    data: {"data":{"type":"users","id":"1","attributes":{"bio":"My New Bio"}}}
});

It returns the User similar to yours with the updated bio.

Davis

datitisev Yes, but he is doing it from the outside of Flarum. So there is an issue somewhere else.

Davis

This works:

<?php
$url = 'https://core.produes.co/api/users/1';
$data = '{"data":{"type":"users","id":"1","attributes":{"bio":"Bio was edited!"}}}';
$headers = array('Content-Type: application/json', 'Authorization: Token AUTHTOKENWASHERE');
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PATCH');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);

Los

I'm trying to do something like that using VueJS + Axios. Anyone knows what am I doing wrong?

I keep getting:

Response for preflight has invalid HTTP status code 404

My code:

axios.post(forumAPI, {
	data: {
		attributes: {
			username: this.data.attributes.username,
			password: this.data.attributes.password,
			email: this.data.attributes.email,
		}
	},
	headers: {
		'Authorization': 'Token XXX',
		'Content-Type': 'application/vnd.api+json'
	},
})
.then(function (response) {
	_this.$router.push(_this.$route.query.redirect || '/dev');
	_this.loading = false;
	_this.hideModal();

})
.catch(function (error) {
	console.log(error);
	_this.loading = false;
})

thomas-saliou

Hi, I'm trying to add users with the Flarum API.

The script works, but I would like to add the 'bio' information also.
$data = '{"data":{ "attributes":{"username":"'.$new_username.'","email":"'.$new_email.'","password":"'.$new_password.'","bio":"'.$bio.'"}}} ';

Username, email and password are well saved in the DB. But the BIO info is NULL

Thanks for your help,
Thomas.

clarkwinkelmann

thomas-saliou is this for beta 7 ? If so I can't see anything wrong.

May I suggest a change for both readability, security and proof against JSON encoding issues ?

(supposing your snippet is PHP code and $data is the body of your request as JSON)

$data  = json_encode([
    'data' => [
        'attributes' => [
            'username' => $new_username,
            'email' => $new_email,
            'password' => $new_password,
            'bio' => $bio,
        ],
    ],
]);

luceos

During registration only a few fields are immediately available to be filled, these include username, email, password, isEmailConfirmed and token. See [beta 8] RegisterUserHandler. You should probably send a patch request directly after creating the user to update the attributes.

thomas-saliou

Thanks much for reply Luceos 🙂