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Hi folks, I'm taking CollectionSpace's REST API for a spin. I've got as far as successfully requesting a list of objects. However, I'm not having any luck creating an object. I've followed the example at http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Using+cURL+as+a+Client+to+CollectionSpace+Servicesbut I'm getting this response: HTTP Status 405 - _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ type Status report message description The specified HTTP method is not allowed for the requested resource (). Here's the command line I'm using: $ curl -X POST http://serveraddress:8180/cspace-services/collectionobjects/-i -u username:password -H "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=74592b13-e90b-49a3-a1bb-54f7341cc1ce" -T foo.xml Foo.xml is exactly as shown in the wiki's example of a multipart payload for create. This is against the 1.3 release of CollectionSpace. Has anything relevant changed since the wiki page was last updated (June 2010)? Am I missing something obvious? thanks, Joe

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Joe, I’ll see if I can reproduce this problem and get back to you soon. Thanks, Richard richard.millet@berkeley.edu CollectionSpace Services Team From: talk-bounces@lists.collectionspace.org [mailto:talk-bounces@lists.collectionspace.org] On Behalf Of Joe Slag Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:08 AM To: talk@lists.collectionspace.org Subject: [Talk] trouble creating an object via REST Hi folks, I'm taking CollectionSpace's REST API for a spin. I've got as far as successfully requesting a list of objects. However, I'm not having any luck creating an object. I've followed the example at http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Using+cURL+as+a+Client+to+CollectionSpace+Services but I'm getting this response: HTTP Status 405 - _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ type Status report message description The specified HTTP method is not allowed for the requested resource (). Here's the command line I'm using: $ curl -X POST http://serveraddress:8180/cspace-services/collectionobjects/ -i -u username:password -H "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=74592b13-e90b-49a3-a1bb-54f7341cc1ce" -T foo.xml Foo.xml is exactly as shown in the wiki's example of a multipart payload for create. This is against the 1.3 release of CollectionSpace. Has anything relevant changed since the wiki page was last updated (June 2010)? Am I missing something obvious? thanks, Joe

Hi Joe, Thanks much for your interest in CollectionSpace! On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Joe Slag <joe@slagwerks.com> wrote: > I'm taking CollectionSpace's REST API for a spin. I've got as far as > successfully requesting a list of objects. However, I'm not having any luck > creating an object. I've followed the example at > http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Using+cURL+as+a+Client+to+CollectionSpace+Services > but I'm getting this response: > ...HTTP Status 405 Richard and I discovered that the URL paths in that document were incorrect; that the trailing slashes after ".../collectionobjects/" were yielding that '405 error'. The wiki document you're referring to has just been updated to reflect this, as well as to incorporate other updates. The examples of cURL commands and payloads in that document have been tested to work successfully with release 1.4 (on demo.collectionspace.org) and with a near-final release 1.5: http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Using+cURL+as+a+Client+to+CollectionSpace+Services Please try this again, at your convenience, with your 1.3 instance of CollectionSpace, and let us know of your results. Thank you! Aron Roberts

Hi Aron and Richard, Thanks for looking into this. I just tried removing the trailing slash as you describe, and was able to successfully create an object on our 1.3 server. cheers, Joe On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Aron Roberts <aron@socrates.berkeley.edu>wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Thanks much for your interest in CollectionSpace! > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Joe Slag <joe@slagwerks.com> wrote: > > I'm taking CollectionSpace's REST API for a spin. I've got as far as > > successfully requesting a list of objects. However, I'm not having any > luck > > creating an object. I've followed the example at > > > http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Using+cURL+as+a+Client+to+CollectionSpace+Services > > but I'm getting this response: > > ...HTTP Status 405 > > Richard and I discovered that the URL paths in that document were > incorrect; that the trailing slashes after ".../collectionobjects/" > were yielding that '405 error'. > > The wiki document you're referring to has just been updated to > reflect this, as well as to incorporate other updates. The examples > of cURL commands and payloads in that document have been tested to > work successfully with release 1.4 (on demo.collectionspace.org) and > with a near-final release 1.5: > > > http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Using+cURL+as+a+Client+to+CollectionSpace+Services > > Please try this again, at your convenience, with your 1.3 instance > of CollectionSpace, and let us know of your results. > > Thank you! > Aron Roberts >