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

Hi,

> 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.

Understood. Is there any possibility to apply compatibility hotfixes for 
admin API too while we prepare the rewrite on our end?

Regards,
Martin

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