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Andrew Devenish-Meares

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Jan 7, 2018, 7:11:15 PM1/7/18
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Hi All,

 

I am currently trying to get works to post to ORCID Records in the Sandbox in v2.1.

 

An example of our generated XML is attached, and this validates against the XML Schema’s locally.

 

Posting to:

                https://api.sandbox.orcid.org/v2.1/0000-0001-5035-2168/work

Headers:

                Content-Type: application/vnd.orcid+xml; qs=5;charset=UTF-8

                Authorization: Bearer <access_token>

 

This gives a 400 Response with the message ‘Bad Request’.  The API Errors Codes document (https://members.orcid.org/api/resources/error-codes) says “Check XML headers”.

 

I’m unclear what this means, given I’ve got XML that validates.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks


ADM

 

 

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Peters, Robert

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Jan 7, 2018, 10:00:57 PM1/7/18
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We'll check closer tomorrow. However until then try switching `http://www.orcid.org/ns/work work-2.0.xsd` to `http://www.orcid.org/ns/work work-2.1.xsd`.
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Andrew Devenish-Meares

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Jan 7, 2018, 10:12:46 PM1/7/18
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Hi Rob,

 

I’d need to change all the relivent schema files and reload, so it validates, which is rather a lot of work.

 

Changing the endpoint version to v2.0 gives the same result, however.

 

ADM

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Simpson, Will

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Jan 8, 2018, 8:03:00 AM1/8/18
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Hi Andrew,

I tried posting the XML to my sandbox record, and the full headers and body of the repsonse were as follows.


HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
X-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
X-content-type-options: nosniff
Transfer-encoding: chunked
Expires: 0
Server: nginx/1.10.0
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:00:02 GMT
Access-control-allow-origin: *
Content-type: application/vnd.orcid+xml; qs=5;charset=UTF-8
X-frame-options: DENY
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
    <response-code>400</response-code>
    <developer-message>400 Bad Request: Invalid activity, an external identifier is required. Full validation error: Invalid external-id ScopusEID relationship</developer-message>
    <user-message>Invalid activity: an external identifier is required.</user-message>
    <error-code>9023</error-code>
</error>

I changed

<common:external-id>
  <common:external-id-type>ScopusEID</common:external-id-type>
  <common:external-id-value>2-s2.0-84951568046</common:external-id-value>
</common:external-id>

to

<common:external-id>
  <common:external-id-type>eid</common:external-id-type>
  <common:external-id-value>2-s2.0-84951568046</common:external-id-value>
  <common:external-id-relationship>self</common:external-id-relationship>
</common:external-id>

and was then able to post the work to my record, with a 201 response.

See here for more info about supported work identifier types.


Best regards,

Will

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Simpson, Will

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Jan 8, 2018, 9:32:38 AM1/8/18
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Oh, I copied and pasted the XML from GMail, which filtered out the bad characters. Looks like Andrew will hit the errors I got once he has fixed the bad characters in the file.

Best,

Will

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Date: Jan 7, 2018 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ORCID API] 400 Bad Request Help
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Hi Andrew,
Looks like you have a UTF-8 encoding issue. That would match our servers complaining about the xml header  which is `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>`. Image of my text editor complaining when I open the file:

Inline image 1

After saving as UTF-8 and doing a diff:

58c58

<           <work:credit-name>Andrew F?Zull</work:credit-name>

---

>           <work:credit-name>Andrew FZull</work:credit-name>

66c66

<           <work:credit-name>R A?Lawes</work:credit-name>

---

>           <work:credit-name>R ALawes</work:credit-name>

73c73

<         <work:credit-name>Oscar J?Cacho</work:credit-name>

---

>         <work:credit-name>Oscar JCacho</work:credit-name>


Look for bad hidden characters at those locations. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/115210/how-to-check-whether-a-file-is-valid-utf-8 about checking validity.


Cheers,
Rob

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Andrew Devenish-Meares

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Jan 8, 2018, 4:21:46 PM1/8/18
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Hi Will and Rob,

 

Bad characters are sorted, it seems.  I wasn’t expecting a message body with more detail… didn’t see it in the documentation.  That helps.

 

All good, will check out the Scopus EID bit… Needs some more work in the XSL there.

 

Thanks

 

ADM

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Andrew Devenish-Meares

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Jan 8, 2018, 7:35:19 PM1/8/18
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Thanks for the help, this now appears to be working.  Turns out this is test data in the development system, and doesn’t exist in production. Should it make it that far, at least it will be handled.

Simpson, Will

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Jan 9, 2018, 6:40:02 AM1/9/18
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Thanks for letting us know, Andrew. 

Cheers,

Will

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