Hi Tim,
Thanks for your very nice reply! You saved me considerable time, but I am
sorry to have wasted your time with such a dumb mistake. :-(
Best regards,
Paul
On Friday, December 6, 2019 at 4:48:57 PM UTC+1, Tim Donohue wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> It looks (to me) like you are POSTing to the wrong endpoint (based on the
> docs you linked to)
>
> Your POST looks like this:
>
> POST /rest/communities/cb69484b-1669-4832-b0aa-8acb902db531
>
> But, the correct POST to create a collection is:
>
> POST /rest/communities/cb69484b-1669-4832-b0aa-8acb902db531/collections
>
> So, the error you are seeing is correct. You cannot POST to just the
> /communities/{uuid} endpoint...that endpoint only accepts GET (to get info
> about that Community), DELETE (to delete that community) and PUT (to update
> that community). If you want to add a collection, you have to POST to the
> /collections subresource for that community.
>
> Hopefully that helps!
>
> Tim
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* [email protected] <javascript:> <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> on behalf of Paul Warner <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> *Sent:* Friday, December 6, 2019 3:07 AM
> *To:* DSpace Technical Support <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> *Subject:* [dspace-tech] DSpace 6.3 REST 405 Error when posting new
> collection
>
> I am attempting to add a collection, and am getting a 405 Method Not
> Allowed error. DSpace 6.3. Thanks in advance for any suggestions! --Paul
>
> In the output below, note the line: < Allow: DELETE,GET,OPTIONS,PUT
>
> POST is not on the list! Why?
>
> According to the documentation, creation of a collection uses a POST
> request.
> https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC6x/REST+API#RESTAPI-Communities
>
> Here is the server output:
> * Trying 127.0.0.1...
> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
> Current
> Dload Upload Total Spent Left
> Speed
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
> 0* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 8345 (#0)
> > POST /rest/communities/cb69484b-1669-4832-b0aa-8acb902db531 HTTP/1.1
> > User-Agent: curl/7.37.0
> > Host: 127.0.0.1:8345
> > Accept: */*
> > Cookie: JSESSIONID=1041D8EFC72B7F930B6D3363406220FA
> > Content-Type: application/json
> > Content-Length: 526
> >
> } [data not shown]
> * upload completely sent off: 526 out of 526 bytes
> < HTTP/1.1 405
> < Allow: DELETE,GET,OPTIONS,PUT
> < Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
> < Content-Language: en
> < Content-Length: 1090
> < Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 08:45:03 GMT
> <
> { [data not shown]
> 100 1616 100 1090 100 526 334k 161k --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
> 532k
> * Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
> <!doctype html><html lang="en"><head><title>HTTP Status 405 – Method Not
> Allowed</title><style type="text/css">h1
> {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;}
>
> h2
> {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:16px;}
>
> h3
> {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:14px;}
>
> body
> {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;} b
> {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;}
> p
> {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;background:white;color:black;font-size:12px;}
>
> a {color:black;} a.name {color:black;} .line
> {height:1px;background-color:#525D76;border:none;}</style></head><body><h1>HTTP
>
> Status 405 – Method Not Allowed</h1><hr class="line" /><p><b>Type</b>
> Status Report</p><p><b>Message</b> Method Not
> Allowed</p><p><b>Description</b> The method received in the request-line is
> known by the origin server but not supported by the target resource.</p><hr
> class="line" /><h3>Apache Tomcat/8.5.20</h3></body></html>
>
>
> In anticipation of possible questions, here is the way I make the REST
> call:
>
> I allow Tomcat access only on localhost, and my script is on the same
> machine. I make the call with curl:
>
> add_cmd = ['curl', '-v', '--cookie', self.sessionid, '--header',
> 'Content-Type: application/json', '-X', 'POST', item_link, '-d', json_str]
>
> item_link = 'using
> http://127.0.0.1/rest/communities/cb69484b-1669-4832-b0aa-8acb902db531'
> json_str = '''
> {
> "copyrightText": "",
> "expand": [
> "parentCommunityList",
> "parentCommunity",
> "items",
> "license",
> "logo",
> "all"
> ],
> "introductoryText": "Willkommen zu der neue Sammlung 1!",
> "items": [],
> "license": null,
> "logo": null,
> "name": "Neue Sammlung 1",
> "shortDescription": "eine Sammlung via REST erzeugt",
> "sidebarText": "",
> "type": "collection"
> }
> '''
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
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