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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

Hi,

  due to problems like yours I have applied some hot-fixes to the API to
make it accept the previous syntax. Can you confirm that your problems
still exist?

Tomasz


W dniu 04.10.2018 o 19:48, Martin Božič pisze:
> Hello!
>
> At Arnes we are having an urgent issue. We're in the middle of a massive
> Eduroam deployment in elementary and high schools and we're using
> cat.eduroam.org API in our home grown self-service provisoning portal
> which
> orchestrates the FreeRADIUS, LDAP and DHCP and CAT portal and profiles
> provisoning.
>
> It seems that that todays update of cat.eduroam.org API broke out
> provisioning system. This is what we've found out so far:
>
> - [just for context] on 3.10.2018 we've resolved an internal issue
> with   on provisioning system with a simple workaround, and deployed
> on production
>   in the late afternoon.
> - the last succesful provisoning by our system was completed yesterday
>   morning (3.10.2018)
> - the error that we've got from debugging the self-service provisioning
>   portal is the following:
>
>    - API endpoint our portal is calling:
> https://cat.eduroam.org/admin/API.php
>    - debug from example payload (note that this is Python output which
> is not
>      in valid JSON format):
>
>      {
>     'option[S90]': 'profile-api:eaptype',
>     'option[S3]': 'eap:ca_url',
>     'option[S1]': 'general:instname',
>     'value[S1-0]': u'OSNOVNA \u0160OLA MUTA',
>     'option[S5]': 'eap:server_name',
>     'value[S69-3]': 'on',
>     'option[S66]': 'profile:name',
>     'value[S4-0]': '',
>     'APIKEY': 'a******************f',
>     'NEWINST_PRIMARYADMIN': '',
>     'value[S4-lang]': 'C',
>     'ACTION': 'NEWINST',
>     'value[S90-0]': 1,
>     'option[S70]': 'profile-api:realm',
>     'option[S69]': 'profile:production',
>     'value[S66-0]': u'OSNOVNA \u0160OLA MUTA',
>     'option[S4]': 'support:email',
>     'value[S3-0]':
> 'ftp://ftp.arnes.si/software/eduroam/arnes_eduroam_ca_2012.pem',
>     'option[S72]': 'profile-api:anon',
>     'value[S67-1]': u'Profil za uporabnike organizacije: OSNOVNA
> \u0160OLA MUTA',
>     'option[S91]': 'profile-api:eaptype',
>     'option[S67]': 'profile:description',
>     'value[S70-0]': u'osmuta.si',
>     'value[S5-0]': 'orle.arnes.si',
>     'value[S71-3]': 'on',
>     'value[S91-0]': 2,
>     'value[S72-0]': u' AT osmuta.si',
>     'value[S66-lang]': 'C',
>     'option[S71]': 'profile-api:useanon',
>     'value[S1-lang]': 'C'
>      }
>
>    - response from cat.eduroam.org API:
>
>      {
>     "result": "ERROR",
>     "details": {
>         "errorcode": 8,
>         "description": "Unable to decode JSON POST data."
>        }
>      }
>
> - our testing environment where we use API from
>   https://cat-test.eduroam.org/branch/admin/API.php is doing fine.
>
>
> Unfortunately, since the hand-off from the original AAI/developer team
> that
> developed our portal somehow missed this detail on so strictly relying
> on cat.eduroam.org API, we weren't aware and ready of the coming CAT
> upgrade.
> That's why we're now in a showstopper situation and unable to meet our
> deployment deadline, thus jeopardizing the project. We can't afford to
> workaround with excluding the CAT from our provisioning system because
> it's actually a cornerstone of the rollout.
>
> We're asking for help or any information about API changes that could
> help us restore the service as soon as possible.
>
> Regards,
> Martin Božič
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