Create a User with API

[GuillaumeD]

Hello,

My version of pentaho is 5.3.
I'm trying to use pentaho API to create a user.
For now I can use the API of pentaho with the GET, but I can not manage to do a PUT.
I try to do this in JAVA using HttpsUrlConnexion and here is how I proceed.

PUT this is NOK

url = new URL("https://xxxxx/pentaho/api/userroledao/createUser");
// identification avec le ticket

hsu2 = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection(proxy);
hsu2.setDoOutput(true);
hsu2.setRequestMethod("PUT");
// System.out.println(hsu2.getHeaderField("Set-Cookie"));
hsu2.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookies);
hsu2.addRequestProperty("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.8");
hsu2.addRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla");
hsu2.setRequestProperty("Connection", "keep-alive");
hsu2.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","application/json");
String json_create_user = "{\"userName\":\"user_name\",\"password\": \"password\"}";

OutputStream os3 = hsu2.getOutputStream();
os3.write(json_create_user.getBytes());
os3.flush();
os3.close();
hsu2.disconnect();

This return a error 500

When i do a GET and this is OK

url = new URL("https://xxxxx/pentaho/api/userroledao/users");
// identification avec le ticket
hsu2 = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection(proxy);
hsu2.setDoOutput(true);
hsu2.setRequestMethod("PUT");
// System.out.println(hsu2.getHeaderField("Set-Cookie"));
hsu2.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookies);
hsu2.addRequestProperty("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.8");
hsu2.addRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla");
hsu2.setRequestProperty("Connection", "keep-alive");
hsu2.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","application/json");

hsu2.disconnect();

This return users of pentaho in xml format.



I used the API documentation but still the PUT does not work..

Thank's

Guillaume D

[emil.gerth@shiftwise.com]

I realize this is a stale thread, but I found it after encountering a similar problem. The endpoint only appears to accept XML content. What succeeded for me was a PUT against pentaho/api/userroledao/createUser with content type application/xml and a body like this:

<user>
<userName>TestUser</username>
<password>TestPassword</password>
</user>

I figured this out solely by making some educated guesses after noticing the docs only specified application/xml as an acceptable request body type. There is no documentation providing this actual XML structure that I could find. Even using Postman, trying to submit the userName and password on separate lines without XML decoration as shown at https://help.pentaho.com/Documentati...#Create_a_user failed.