Creating a task

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Hi there

I’m trying to create a task, but I get a 422 error back with every
combination I try.

{“errors”:[{“message”:“name can’t be blank”}]}

Except, name isn’t blank. I’m POSTING the following to this url:
/v2/tasks?project=11 (on the sandbox)

{“task”:{“project”:"/v2/projects/11",“name”:“Task
TEST”,“is_billable”:true,“billing_rate”:400,“billing_period”:“day”,“status”:“active”,“url”:"",“updated_at”:"",“created_at”:""}}

I’ve also tried:

{“tasks”:{“project”:"/v2/projects/11",“name”:“Task
TEST”,“is_billable”:true,“billing_rate”:400,“billing_period”:“day”,“status”:“active”,“url”:"",“updated_at”:"",“created_at”:""}}

and

{“project”:"/v2/projects/11",“name”:“Task
TEST”,“is_billable”:true,“billing_rate”:400,“billing_period”:“day”,“status”:“active”,“url”:"",“updated_at”:"",“created_at”:""}

All of them come back with the same error message. Or is this another
case of the url-bring-blank type thing??

So… how do you make a task?

Ta

Nic

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I can’t easily remove the project from the json payload (this is the
same problem as the “url”:null / “url”:“” issue on a bunch of the
other end points.), but just changeing the url to
project=/v2/projects/123 didn’t fix it.

I’ll try that tomorrow as part of doing the same for the url field on
a load of other end points. Basically, I need to write a custom
serializer, have it serialize as normal json, then use regular
expressions to remove bits of it.

Why the sudden departure on this one? Most of the others take a field
with a reference (eg project has a reference to a contact), this one
takes a parameter…

Is this likely to be fixed? eg, if there is one on the querystring,
use it. If not, look in the JSON… ?On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Olly H olly@freeagent.com wrote:

Hi Nic

Please can you try posting to:

https://api.freeagent.com/v2/tasks?project=/v2/projects/11

With:

{“task”:{“name”:“Task
TEST”,“is_billable”:true,“billing_rate”:400,“billing_period”:“day”,“status”:active",“url”:“”,“updated_at”:“”,“created_at”:“”}}

i.e. using a path rather than an ID in the URL and removing the project from
the JSON

Olly

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Hi Nic

Please can you try posting to:

https://api.freeagent.com/v2/tasks?project=/v2/projects/11

With:

{“task”:{“name”:“Task TEST”,“is_billable”:true,“billing_rate”:400,“billing_period”:“day”,“status”:active",“url”:"",“updated_at”:"",“created_at”:""}}

i.e. using a path rather than an ID in the URL and removing the project
from the JSON

Olly