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[Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>]

Hi,

> 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

Tomasz has included a compatibility layer for the User API. Your problem
is with the Admin API, which is unrelated. You really need to switch to
the JSON format as per my email from 08:48 this morning.

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

> 
> 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
>>          
>> twoln AT umk.pl
>>         http://www.home.umk.pl/~twoln
>>
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