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Lewis_Beard
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3 months ago

Occasional Bad Request with API to PATCH users

I have a user suspension script that I prefer to run instead of using the "Suspend user after X days of inactivity on LM portal" option in the UI, because of some custom logic. I set up a script ages...
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Lewis_Beard
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3 months ago

Well I discovered there was nothing wrong with my code at all. I'm not sure why, but something about those few users was corrupt or something. I edited one of them, without making any changes, and as soon as I did, patch requests on the user (from my script) worked fine. So there must have been something anomalous I couldnt see in the data, a weird character or something. But once they were edited and saved with no manual changes by me other than clicking SAVE .... they were fine.

Weird.

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jake_nahm
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3 months ago

Hi Lewis. Thanks for sharing this detailed use case. I wanted to check if the API calls are working? Based on your last post it seems like the issue resolved.

Also wanted to check if you're using API v3 endpoints?

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    Lewis_Beard
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    3 months ago

    The API calls were working all along, there was just something wacky in the user data that, as soon as I edited the user and saved it with no (VISIBLE IN THE UI) changes, the same script worked on them. So its kinda frustrating. :)

    But anyway, yes I always exclusively use v3 endpoints.