ALM REST upload attachment - internal server error (500)

[BerndP]

hi there,

i try to upload an attachment to a defect.

I always get an error internal server error (500).

This is the request stream i send, and for me it looks ok.

Has anyone an idea what might be the problem?

c# code

            string boundary = "uploadboundary";
            string URL = "http://server/qcbin/rest/domains/DOMAIN/projects/PROJECT/attachments";
            HttpWebRequest attRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(URL);
            
             attRequest.Method = "POST";
             attRequest.ContentType = "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary;
             attRequest.Accept = "application/json";
            attRequest.CookieContainer = authRequest.CookieContainer;

            string FilePath = "test.txt";

            formData.Clear();
            formData["entity.type"] = "defect";
            formData["entity.id"] = "825";
            formData["filename"] = "test.txt";
            formData["description"] = "Testanhang";
             
            Stream postDataStream = GetPostStream(FilePath, formData, boundary);
            
            attRequest.ContentLength = postDataStream.Length;
            
            Stream reqStream = attRequest.GetRequestStream();

            postDataStream.CopyTo(reqStream);
            
            postDataStream.Close();
            reqStream.Close();
            
            
            HttpWebResponse attResponse = (HttpWebResponse)attRequest.GetResponse();

reqstream:

--uploadboundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="entity.type";

defect
--uploadboundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="entity.id";

825
--uploadboundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="filename";

test.txt
--uploadboundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="description";

Testanhang
--uploadboundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="test.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

das ist ein test
--uploadboundary--

[slbruce]

Hi

Attachments are not part of the public API as stated in the documentation here: http://octane-help.saas.hpe.com/en/12.55.3/API/Developer_Help.htm#API/Attachments.htm

That means that you need to send a special header in order for the attachments to work.

If you are still having issues after adding the header please let me know

Spencer

[Dirk Hedderich]

Hi,

Could we perhaps send e.g. error 403 with an explanation instead?

Thanks,

Dirk

[slbruce]

This is a possibility - however it does depend on what actually happened.  We would have to see further details about what exactly the problem is in this case

Spencer

[BerndP]

Hi Spencer,

thank you for the info. No clue how to find it. In the offical rest api documentation is another description.

Anyway, I still have the same error. Hopefully cou can help me again.

KR

Bernd

POST /qcbin/rest/domains/CUSTOMER/projects/PROJECT/attachments HTTP/1.1

Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=--uploadboundary

Accept: application/json

HPCLIENTTYPE: HPE_REST_API_TECH_PREVIEW

Host: msapp02p:8080

Cookie: LWSSO_COOKIE_KEY=IpX30bApPSUEUnP4Uq9IwSNbcdI89VgnNg5ISV3amF-1F2lqplnJblqtcrGOiM19JZrsJtZmtkFXpVVYKay9B-MEipAUhWaS7BOzjnj2ZlMe3ZHHZBCeSVY9Sbv-Bi8mfGUSkKp-mipMVsqbxt0tmf0kDvr3Hc7D707YUPwEnNVQLG4OgM714VtWyRVRDwzuqg0m6qWk1uHosNetQYd9QoWsasbUoPzq4cSm-iUnNPQR3mF7HyVf5HXULHJR89DaMqG42K6J7tCMZZjdOCcFNisBJNLSqHYckdJL-dV7k5s.; QCSession=NjMyOTc3O0prRVRIdWRUb2JTdmpacE8xN1dzRVEqKjtSRVNUIGNsaWVudDsgOyA.; ALM_USER=72cbc27efa8f4f748a37d85b07d99f9a31ec7e677ae6f4e1cec9425451e63a21; XSRF-TOKEN=3e9858df8e7be714dbda3127dafb7b26eaa71fbe364fe74ede0737a21a0358a4

Content-Length: 398

Expect: 100-continue

--uploadboundary

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="entity"

Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

{"owner_defect":{"id":846, "type":"defect"}, "name":"test.txt", "description":"Testanhang"}

--uploadboundary

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="content"; filename="test.txt"

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

ZGFzIGlzdCBlaW4gdGVzdA==

--uploadboundary--

HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error

Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:38:56 GMT

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

Set-Cookie: LWSSO_COOKIE_KEY=Aaip8XXCQVxA3y8H5xAMp6Qq_qZPK1AW4Ga-QA6E_Ga2xFfdz-XuxgAKVz1gX0nUN1nlEbZbk0DN55G5BclxrmLkzJQT3spyI7Yd90cqpDDsPUFWMfU1r0h7GEf4AtIwaX7p-X26oRw5gDCugM3sau3HOwFNTh8IaZYdTI8mF0VpU4Jm0gHWnO3fQKVByBz7uw3eFWnqpEsV48Uagt01hhtV_u1jZp4DcwwaHyuP_PXwEGU4qi82-v2XG9a4OmluqCjLSFCKl2zCRhW9-1QES8kgXqopOgpb9U1E9FDFfBQ.;Path=/;HTTPOnly

Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=2z8qhiduso8x1afvtp8zaw4ep;Path=/qcbin;HttpOnly

Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

Content-Type: application/json

X-XSS-protection: 1; mode=block

Content-Length: 114

Server: Jetty(9.1.4.v20140401)

{"Id":"qccore.general-error","Title":"String index out of range: -1","ExceptionProperties":null,"StackTrace":null}