Posting data submissions using the KOBO Rest API

[Hussein Lightwalla]

Hello,

I'm having trouble forming the HTTP request in a correct format as expected for submitting data using the KOBO REST API. I'm trying to this from.net (C#). Could someone please assist me with a simple example of a code snippet of what this would look like?

Thank you!

Hussein

[Tino Kreutzer]

Hi Hussein,

Are you trying to POST an XML or a JSON submission? There are some examples in our API documentation. 

If you've tried the examples on https://kc.kobotoolbox.org/api/v1/submissions unsuccessfully, could you paste your snippet so we can help troubleshoot? 

Best,

Tino

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[Hussein Lightwalla]

Hey Tino,

Thanks for your reply. I've managed to submit data via CSV files as follows:

var client = new RestClient("https://kc.kobotoolbox.org/api/v1/forms/{pk}/csv_import");
client.Authenticator = new HttpBasicAuthenticator("user_name", "password");
client.AddDefaultUrlSegment("pk", "31045");
string file_path = Server.MapPath("~/myform.csv");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddFile("csv_file", file_path);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

but I still find it difficult with either JSON or XML. I think the main challenge is figuring out how exactly the XML file should be structured or how the JSON should be structured. 

Thanks!

[Tino Kreutzer]

Hi Hussein,

For importing XML, did you try using the exact format of XML created by KoBoCollect? The default format is

<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<your_form_id id="your_form_id">
<formhub><uuid>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</uuid></formhub><q1>some text</q1><q2>some text</q2><meta><instanceID>uuid:yyyyyyyyy</instanceID></meta>
</your_form_id>

Best,
Tino

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[Hussein Lightwalla]

Hey Tino,

I'll give this a shot. Thanks!

Kind regards,

Hussein