Creating User in Canvase

[Rob Callicotte]

While creating a user in Canvas via the API, if get this message - while(1);[], does this mean it did not work?

[Rob Callicotte]

I also get just plain []

[Chris Herdt]

Rob, a successful request should return a user object (see https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/users.html#method.users.create).

Can you provide an example of the request you are sending (with the API key and any specific user data redacted)?

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[Rob Callicotte]

Following the API, I'm not certain this is going through correctly. Anyone help?

1. I have a user

2. As far as I know my API is in the context of the Park Test server (not production)

3. User ID is the user I plan to promote 

4. Role ID is the role I plan to promote the User ID to

5. I send confirmation

Here is the URI - https://<test_server>/api/v1/accounts/1/admins?user_id=<Existing_ID>&role_id=12&send_confirmation=true&<access_token>

Does anything look amiss or has anyone seen anything not work with this in particular?

class AdminsController < ApplicationController
	before_filter :require_user
	before_filter :get_context
	include Api::V1::Admin
	# @API Make an account admin
	#
	# Flag an existing user as an admin within the account.
	#
	# @argument user_id [Required, Integer]
	# The id of the user to promote.
	#
	# @argument role [String] (deprecated)
	# The user's admin relationship with the account will be created with the
	# given role. Defaults to 'AccountAdmin'.
	#
	# @argument role_id [Integer]
	# The user's admin relationship with the account will be created with the
	# given role. Defaults to the built-in role for 'AccountAdmin'.
	#
	# @argument send_confirmation [Boolean] Send a notification email to
	# the new admin if true. Default is true.
	#
	# @returns Admin

On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 4:59:31 PM UTC-5, Rob Callicotte wrote:

[Rob Callicotte]

Thanks Chris. Here's my post in C# --

protected string POST(string strURI, string strAuth)

    {

        HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(strURI) as HttpWebRequest;

        httpWebRequest.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + strAuth);

        httpWebRequest.ContentType = "text/json";

        httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";

        httpWebRequest.PreAuthenticate = true;

        string strResponse = "";

        try

        {

            using (var streamWrite = new StreamWriter(httpWebRequest.GetRequestStream(), Encoding.UTF8))

            {

                streamWrite.Write(strURI);

                streamWrite.Flush();

                streamWrite.Close();

                string strSuccess = "Successful.";

                return strSuccess;

            }

        }

        catch (WebException ex)

        {

           [still working on this]

[Chris Herdt]

I typically verify that the cURL examples work and then go from there. That way you can verify that you have the correct request parameters before moving it into your language-of-choice.

According to the docs, only pseudonym[unique_id] is required, but I'm getting an error with that as well:
curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer [redacted API key]' https://[my.canvas.domain]/api/v1/accounts/999999/users -X POST -d 'pseudonym\[unique_id\]=testuser'

The error returned:
{"errors":[{"message":"An error occurred.","error_code":"internal_server_error"}],"error_report_id":101249770}

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[Rob Callicotte]

I haven't yet used 'curl', though I assume I need to learn. Are you thinking there is a problem with this API or what do you think?

[Rob Callicotte]

I'm using this API (Create Admin)

POST /api/v1/accounts/:account_id/admins

Flag an existing user as an admin within the account.

Request Parameters:

•  user_id

  Required, Integer

• The id of the user to promote.

•  role

  String

  (deprecated)

  The user's admin relationship with the account will be created with the given role. Defaults to 'AccountAdmin'.

•  role_id

  Integer

  The user's admin relationship with the account will be created with the given role. Defaults to the built-in role for 'AccountAdmin'.

•  send_confirmation

• Boolean

  Send a notification email to

• the new admin if true. Default is true.

Returns a Admin

[Chris Herdt]

OK, so using that API endpoint I was able to add an existing user as an account admin:
curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer [redacted API key]' https://[redacted]/api/v1/accounts/[redacted]/admins -d 'user_id=[redacted]'

This returned a JSON object containing the new admin.

Does this work for you using curl?

[Rob Callicotte]

Chris, I guess not, since my use of CURL is apparently not the same as yours, which means I likely don't know CURL. Good to know it works.

What I'm not sure about is doing this in C#. I can read (GET), but have yet to POST anything in C#. I'm not getting errors in my code, but it isn't posting. Then I heard I first need to remove the person's role and then it would work. Looking into this.

[Rob Callicotte]

Found help on using the CURL with this and another API function. Thanks for the help, Chris! It does work.

On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 4:59:31 PM UTC-5, Rob Callicotte wrote: