Hi Meghna, The timezone [2] that you provide to this python script already URL encodes the string in the param dictionary [1]. So, if you give it a timezone with a “/“ character, for example in case of “Asia/Kolkata” if you give it “Asia%2FKolkata” then the URL encoded value is “Asia%252FSeoul”.
The CloudStack ApiServer URL decode parameters received in an API request [1] so the timezone string becomes “Asia%2FSeoul” on decoding, therefore it is stored with the %2F string in DB and not “/“. So, please don’t double URL encode. I tried the following for myself against 4.3.1 and it works for me; cloudmonkey update user id=<my-user-uuid> timezone=Asia/Kolkata [1] http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.3/user/updateUser.html [2] http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/dev.html#time-zones > On 27-Oct-2014, at 10:54 pm, Meghna Kale <meghna.k...@sungardas.com> wrote: > > Thanks Rohit for the reply. > Python script - > I just found it on internet. > request_type = 'GET' > params = { > 'command':'updateUser', > 'id':user_id > } > if email: params['email'] = email > if first_name: params['firstname'] = first_name > if last_name: params['lastname'] = last_name > if password: params['password'] = password > if timezone: params['timezone'] = timezone > if user_name: params['username'] = user_name > > params['response'] = 'json' > params['apiKey'] = self.api_key > > # build the query string > query_params = map(lambda (k,v):k+"="+urllib.quote(str(v)), > params.items()) > query_string = "&".join(query_params) > > # build signature > query_params.sort() > signature_string = "&".join(query_params).lower() > signature = > urllib.quote(base64.b64encode(hmac.new(self.secret_key, signature_string, > hashlib.sha1).digest())) > > # final query string... > url = > self.protocol+"://"+self.host+self.uri+"?"+query_string+"&signature="+signature > print url > output = None > try: > output = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(url).read()) > Thanks > Meghna. > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> On 27-Oct-2014, at 2:58 pm, Meghna Kale <meghna.k...@sungardas.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> I'm was trying to call Cloudstack create/update user API from a python >>> script. >> >> Can you share the python script? Perhaps it was assume some data? >> >>> But when I add or update timezone it fails with 401 error code. I >> debugged >>> and found that timezone has a special character '/'. I replaced it with >>> '%2F', the API call returns success but it updates the timezone with the >>> '%2F' string in DB. >> >> Url encode when you make API requests. 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