Set user to admin

[Tony G]

I am trying to use the REST API to change the role of a user from "registered" to "administrator".

I am using PHP to make a PUT request through curl with the following data:

{"role":{"name":"administrator","isrole":true},"visibleByTheUser":[],"visibleByFriends":[],"visibleByRegisteredUsers":{"company":"Company name","name":"Users Name","_social":[]},"visibleByAnonymousUsers":[]}

I am sending the request to myserveraddress:9000/admin/user/username with the session and app code in the HTTP headers.

I am getting an error response "The 'visibleByAnonymousUsers' field is missing" 

Can anyone help me spot what is wrong with this? Although this call is not in the API documentation I had read on some forums that this should work.

[giastfader]

Hi,

the visibleBy* fileds are objects not arrays.

and the "role" field is just a string.

Try to send:

{"role":"administrator","visibleByTheUser":{},"visibleByFriends":{},"visibleByRegisteredUsers":{"company":"Company name","name":"Users Name","_social":{}},"visibleByAnonymousUsers":{}}

[Tony G]

Thanks, that was exactly the problem. As those fields aren't being used I declared them as a null object instead of an empty array and it works fine now :)