How do I approve an app object via selection API?

brantley_hobbs — Tue, 08 May 2018 14:53:42 GMT

Hi there!

I'm trying to programmatically (via powershell and the QRS API) approve app objects, but I keep getting "409 conflict" errors.

From my own past experience, this has been an indicator that I'm missing the modifiedDate on whatever object I'm altering, but in this case, I am for-sure supplying it.

Using this post as a reference, I'm doing the following:

Do a POST on "/qrs/selection" with the following body

{

"items": [

{

"type": "App.Object",

"objectID": "0fd0fdad-d35d-4317-9219-0924541946a1"

}

]

}

Get the following selection response

{

"id": "767d3de9-4b24-41f4-a9ed-c11a1d0097bb",

"createdDate": "1753-01-01T00:00:00Z",

"modifiedDate": "1753-01-01T00:00:00Z",

"modifiedByUserName": "INTERNAL\\sa_repository",

"items": [

{

"id": "ab4c000e-d528-42ab-812b-3475f5de4e09",

"createdDate": "1753-01-01T00:00:00Z",

"modifiedDate": "1753-01-01T00:00:00Z",

"modifiedByUserName": "INTERNAL\\sa_repository",

"type": "App.Object",

"objectID": "0fd0fdad-d35d-4317-9219-0924541946a1",

"objectName": "",

"schemaPath": "Selection.Item"

}

"privileges": null,

"schemaPath": "Selection"

}

Do a PUT on "/qrs/selection/767d3de9-4b24-41f4-a9ed-c11a1d0097bb/app/object/synthetic" with the following body:

{

"type": "App.Object",

"properties": [

{

"modifiedDate": "2018-05-07T18:03:35.598Z", <- I've tried several values here

"value": "True",

"name": "approved",

"valueIsDifferent": "False",

"valueIsModified": "True"

}

]

}

Receive the following error:

"Response status code does not indicate success: 409 (Conflict)."

I have tried putting the modifiedDate both inside and outside the "properties" structure, and have tried the modifiedDate on both the selection object, and the app object itself. I have also taken the step of doing a full get on the app object itself just prior to my PUT call to ensure that I have a correct modifiedDate.

The code used to construct URLs, set up headers, etc., is all reused from a library that works perfectly well with every other call (including publish calls, exports, etc.) It seems that I just do not have the right formulation of the body for the PUT call.

Any insights?

Re: How do I approve an app object via selection API?

brantley_hobbs — Tue, 08 May 2018 16:12:14 GMT

Ahh! The answer was right in front of me in the reference page I linked to, but I chalked it up as a typo. Turns out it's a (IMHO) inconsistent API.

It's "latestModifiedDate", not "modifiedDate", and you generate a timestamp from the current time to put in there.

For future generations, here's what a properly formatted PUT body looks like:

{

"type": "App.Object",

"latestModifiedDate": "2018-05-07T18:03:35.598Z",

"properties": [

{

"value": "True",

"name": "approved",

"valueIsDifferent": "False",

"valueIsModified": "True"

}

]

}

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