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[Martin Božič <martin.bozic AT arnes.si>]

Hi, it still doesn't work. The error is the same: Unable to decode JSON
POST data. The last attempt was made at 2018-10-05 08:55:40

Martin

On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 08:46:48PM +0200, Tomasz Wolniewicz wrote:
> 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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> --
> Tomasz Wolniewicz
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