✔ Errors adding global role using API · troubleshooting

Stream: troubleshooting

Topic: ✔ Errors adding global role using API

Deirdre Kirmis (Dec 01 2023 at 18:00):

hello all .. i'm trying to add a global role to our dataverse installation, and not getting very far. I've tried these formats for the api command:

curl http://localhost:8080/api/admin/roles -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --upload-file roles.json

and

curl -H X-Dataverse-key:<my api token> -X POST "http://localhost:8080/api/admin/roles" --upload-file roles.json

and neither works .. for the first one it just returns nothing, and the second one returns "415 upsupported media type"

I used the format for the roles.json file that is in the docs

any thoughts?

Deirdre Kirmis (Dec 01 2023 at 18:19):

I also tried:
curl -H X-Dataverse-key:<my api token> -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/admin/roles -H 'Content-type:application/json' --upload-file roles.json

Deirdre Kirmis (Dec 01 2023 at 18:20):

and using env variables for server, token and export ID (and using the command directly from the docs)

Deirdre Kirmis (Dec 01 2023 at 18:20):

curl -H "X-Dataverse-key:$API_TOKEN" -X POST "$SERVER_URL/api/admin/roles" --upload-file roles.json

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Dec 01 2023 at 19:02):

Hmm, I'm looking at this: Unify and de-duplicate role creation information. #9646

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Dec 01 2023 at 19:03):

Does your JSON look something like this?

{
  "alias": "sys1",
  "name": “Restricted System Role”,
  "description": “A person who may only add datasets.”,
  "permissions": [
    "AddDataset"
  ]
}

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Dec 01 2023 at 19:03):

From https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.0/api/native-api.html#json-representation-of-a-role

Deirdre Kirmis (Dec 01 2023 at 19:03):

yes here it is:
{
"alias": "dsRsrchContrib",
"name": “Research Contributor”,
"description": “Lab manager, research data manager, graduate assistant.”,
"permissions": [
"ViewUnpublishedDataset",
"DownloadFile",
"EditDataset"
]
}

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Dec 01 2023 at 19:04):

Basically, I'm trying to say the docs were clean up recently so if you aren't looking at 5.14 or 6.0 docs you should. :grinning:

Deirdre Kirmis (Dec 01 2023 at 19:04):

although it is indented

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Dec 01 2023 at 19:04):

yeah, that looks right

Deirdre Kirmis (Dec 01 2023 at 19:04):

oh i'm looking at "latest"

Deirdre Kirmis (Dec 01 2023 at 19:04):

https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/native-api.html#create-global-role

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Dec 01 2023 at 19:05):

yeah, and latest is 6.0 right now, of course: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.0/api/native-api.html#create-global-role

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Dec 01 2023 at 19:05):

That curl command matches the second one you posted.

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Dec 01 2023 at 19:05):

should work!

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Dec 01 2023 at 19:05):

anything in server.log?

Deirdre Kirmis (Dec 01 2023 at 19:07):

hmmm .. i see this: "[Payara 6.2023.8] [SEVERE] [] [] [tid: _ThreadID=71 _ThreadName=http-thread-pool::http-listener-1(2)] [timeMillis: 1701457596607] [levelValue: 1000] [[
jakarta.ws.rs.ProcessingException: Error deserializing object from entity stream."