API Call "create_event" problem

[Punkado]

Summary

When you try to create a event, via API, you get:

{"code":"api","description":"Malformed parameter type: enabled (string)"}

Looks like the problem is similar to #626

Steps to reproduce the problem

Create user via api, like for example:
curl -d "title=ansible&category=clfdfs745&plugin=pleewru70&target=t2&enabled=1" -X POST http://IP:3012/api/app/create_event/v1 "X-API-Key: 5eb8ccc69ca0arggdfgfddf65d5479a685"

Your Setup

1x master
3x workers

Operating system and version?

Ubuntu 20.04

Node.js version?

v18.17.1

Cronicle software version?

Version 0.9.30

Are you using a multi-server setup, or just a single server?

Multi-server, but single master

Are you using the filesystem as back-end storage, or S3/Couchbase?

No

Can you reproduce the crash consistently?

Yes

Log Excerpts

curl -d "title=ansible&category=clen7h745&plugin=plm6f5u70&target=h2&enabled=1" -X POST http://IP:3012/api/app/create_event/v1 -H "X-API-Key: 5eb8ccc69caertretertq3ade65d5479a685"
{"code":"api","description":"Malformed parameter type: enabled (string)"}

[jhuckaby]

Gotta use proper JSON inside your POST data, so you can set data types (e.g. boolean for enabled):

{"title":"ansible","category":"clen7h745","plugin":"plm6f5u70","target":"h2","enabled":true}

So try this:

curl -d '{"title":"ansible","category":"clen7h745","plugin":"plm6f5u70","target":"h2","enabled":true}' -X POST http://ip:3012/api/app/create_event/v1 "X-API-Key: 5eb8ccc69ca0arggdfgfddf65d5479a685"

[jhuckaby]

You might also need to set the Content-Type header to application/json in your curl call. I think it's the -H flag.

https://reqbin.com/req/c-woh4qwov/curl-content-type

[Punkado]

It works, also giving a json file, with this curl:

curl -d @data.json -X POST http://IP:3012/api/app/create_event/v1 -H "X-API-Key: 5eb8sdfdfdfsdfgrded65d5479a685" --header "Content-Type: application/json"

Any idea to not have the event duplicated every time that i run a ansible role with with this API call?

Thanks a lot!

[jhuckaby]

Any idea to not have the event duplicated every time that i run a ansible role with with this API call?

Well, I don't know anything about Ansible, but the API call is named create_event, so it's creating a new event, as per your instructions. If you want to update an event which already exists, use update_event instead, and specify the event's ID.

[Punkado]

So imagine that is a bash script, that i will run from time to time. This means that every time that i run, it will create a duplicated event.

I wonder if there is a way to not let it create a event that is exactly like other that already exists or if there is a way to remove all the duplicated events.

[jhuckaby]

I dunno, it sounds like you are doing something that Cronicle isn't really designed to handle. Your bash script sounds like it's more of a "bootstrap" -- an "initialization" routine -- that should only be called once when you are setting up your environment.

You may need a more involved script that calls get_event to see if your event already exists, and it does, skip the create_event call.

Another option is, you could have your script call delete_event before it calls create_event, but I am really not sure.

[Punkado]

I though about the 2 options, get and delete, is a lot of work, maybe i will try other time.

Thanks a lot for the help.