API3

Error Posting deals and contacts

Hi, i'm try to POST a deal retrieved from API where i've made some changes, this is the JSON i'm try to posting

    {  
   "contact_id":"5628e7a49b79b27268000546",
   "owner_id":"5576bafe1787fa3937000e67",
   "owner":{  
      "id":"5576bafe1787fa3937000e67",
      "name":"XXXXXXX",
      "email":"XXXXXX"
   },
   "name":"Test Deal",
   "text":"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet",
   "date":"2017-11-02",
   "contact_info":{  
      "contact_name":"XXXXXX",
      "company":"XXXXXX"
   },
   "author":"XXXXXX.",
   "amount":2000,
   "months":1,
   "total_amount":2000,
   "cost":0,
   "total_cost":0,
   "margin":2000,
   "commission":0,
   "commission_percentage":0,
   "commission_type":"none",
   "commission_base":"amount",
   "status":"pending",
   "has_related_notes":false,
   "attachments":[  

   ],
   "deal_fields":[  

   ],
   "created_at":"2017-11-02T11:49:51Z",
   "modified_at":"2017-11-02T11:49:51Z",
   "stage":25,
   "expected_close_date":"2017-11-02"
}

with this script which works perfectly for GET and POST login.

async onePageApiCall (url, requestMethod, postData = [], uid = null, key = null) {
    let fullUrl = Env.get('API_ONEPAGE_ENDPOINT') + url
    let timestamp = Math.round(new Date().getTime() / 1000)
    let authData = [uid, timestamp, requestMethod, CryptoJs.SHA1(fullUrl).toString()]
    let requestHeader
    let data = null

    // For POST and PUT requests we will send data as JSON
    // as with regular "form data" request we won't be able
    // to send more complex structures
    if (requestMethod === 'POST' || requestMethod === 'PUT') {
      requestHeader = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
      let jsonData = JSON.stringify(postData)
      console.log(jsonData)
      data = jsonData
      authData.push(CryptoJs.SHA1(jsonData).toString())
    }

    // Set auth headers if we are logged in
    if (key !== null) {
      let hash = CryptoJs.HmacSHA256(authData.join('.'), CryptoJs.enc.Base64.parse(key))
      requestHeader = {
        'X-OnePageCRM-UID': uid,
        'X-OnePageCRM-TS': timestamp,
        'X-OnePageCRM-Auth': hash
      }
    }

    console.log(data)
    return await axios({
      method: requestMethod.toUpperCase(),
      url: fullUrl,
      headers: requestHeader,
      data
    })
  }

i've only removed the ID from retrieved deal to save to another contact but API always respond with this error

data: 
      { status: 400,
        message: 'Incomplete request data',
        error_name: 'incomplete_request_data',
        error_message: 'Required parameter name has not been found or it has invalid format\n',
        errors: {} } }

even if i try with a simple object like

{'name':'Lorem Ipsum'}

it always return an error.

hoping for your help, thanks in advance

Hi Luca,

I've quickly checked you scenario get some deal from API , delete deal id, change contact it to another and make POST request. It is worked for me.

Also simple deal post with contact id is worked too:
POST /api/v3/deals.json

{"name":"new deal from api","contact_id":"59fc2b283e5a143da7180573"}

Could you please check endpoint and method, and may be something wrong with your postData. Note that retrieving by GET from API gives you {'data': 'deal': {...}} structure, but you should post only deal data {...}

Kind regards,
Mikhail

Hi Mikhail, thanks for your reply!

i'm still getting same error even with the adjustment you suggest.

The URL is correct and send data too, the only way it works it's by building query string like this

let url = 'deals.json?contact_id=59fc2b283e5a143da7180573&name=loremipsum'

but is not the best way to save a more complex deal,

do you have any other suggestion?

Thnaks a lot!

Hi Luca,
in my previous post I mean send request to
POST /api/v3/deals.json

with request body

 {"name":"new deal from api","contact_id":"59fc2b283e5a143da7180573"}

This is same, when contact_id included in url:
POST /api/v3/deals.json?contact_id=59fc2b283e5a143da7180573

but request body should contain deal fields:

{"name":"new deal from api"}

Also it is possible to use Basic auth to send API requests. More details here: http://forum.developer.onepagecrm.com/t/using-onepage-crm-api-with-postman/302

Kind regards,
Mikhail

Hi Mikhail thanks for your reply!

I'm still trying using your guidelines for url and data to post but i'm still getting same error

data: 
      { status: 400,
        message: 'Incomplete request data',
        error_name: 'incomplete_request_data',
        error_message: 'Required parameter contact_id has not been found or it has invalid format\n',
        errors: {} } } }

Hi Luca,

Error message points that something wrong with provided contact id, perhaps contact with this id is not exists in you account. Try to put existing contact from you account.

Required parameter contact_id has not been found or it has invalid format

Kind regards,
Mikhail

I am also facing the same issue. I am trying to update a deal's contact_id
using body as

**

{
   "contact_id": "622a38ce78d40013c6ef2fa3"
}

**

but getting below error.

**

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hash>
    <status type="integer">400</status>
    <message>Incomplete request data</message>
    <error-name>incomplete_request_data</error-name>
    <error-message>Required parameter name has not been found or it has invalid format</error-message>
    <errors>
  </errors>
</hash>

I am sure that the contact_id exists but getting the error.

It seems to me that we cannot update contact_id via api calls. ( Because i tried updating other fields similarly and it works)

Please help

Hello arun!

The error you received tells us that you should have also specified name parameter in your request since it's a mandatory parameter when updating a deal via API. But even if you provide it the contact_id won't be changed, because it's disallowed to move a deal from one contact to another via API. So the contact_id of a deal won't be changed after such a call.

Thank you,
Vladimir