API PUT Command Not Processing Body Data

[joelvanos]

I am currently using the Nagios XI API to try and automate some tasks. In my testing I found that the POST command would allow me to send data in the body of a curl request, but a PUT command would just ignore all data unless it was passed on the URL. Is this expected behavior or am I doing something wrong? I would like to be able to use the PUT with body data so that I don't have to worry about the URL length issue in this post:
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Working API Call (URL Parameters):
curl -k -XPUT "https://nagiosxihost/nagiosxi/api/v1/co ... ost1,host2"

Broken API Call (Data in Body):
curl -k -XPUT "https://nagiosxihost/nagiosxi/api/v1/co ... n=service1" -d "host_name=host1,host2"

[DoubleDoubleA]

Hi @joelvanos,

I also cannot get -d to work on a PUT with the Nagios XI API. I see in the code that we handle POST and PUT differently, it looks like PUT is expecting all of the arguments in the URL. I'll put in an issue about seeing if we can change the handling of the PUT without breaking what users have come to expect of it. If we can't we'd have to wait for a new version of the API.

Aaron

[joelvanos]

Thanks. I look forward to any updates.

[optionstechnology]

Also just FYI because of this put commands cannot process service name changes if the service name has a space in it

[DoubleDoubleA]

@optionstechnology I must kindly disagree.

It is possible to use PUT on a service with a space in the name. In the POST you can use the space, but in the PUT you need to put in a "+" where the space is. This is standard url encoding.

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[root@localhost tools]# curl -XPOST "http://192.168.94.133/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/service?apikey=DJY9CkGmHNW3pFk0hgnG2Qug46nWv9BrV3D82fi3DEVW3M3Vgn7vULO5P0BNs2pO&pretty=1" -d "host_name=testapihost&service_description=P ING&check_command=check_ping\!3000,80%\!5000,100%&check_interval=5&retry_interval=5&max_check_attempts=2&check_period=24x7&contacts=nagiosadmin&notification_interval=5&notification_period=24x7&applyconfig=1"
{
    "success": "Added testapihost :: P ING to the system. Config applied, Nagios Core was restarted."
}
[root@localhost tools]# curl -XPUT "http://192.168.94.133/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/service/?apikey=DJY9CkGmHNW3pFk0hgnG2Qug46nWv9BrV3D82fi3DEVW3M3Vgn7vULO5P0BNs2pO&old_config_name=testapihost&old_service_description=P+ING&pretty=1&display_name=PINGTEST&host_name=localhost&service_description=pLingly&applyconfig=1"                                                                 {
    "success": "Updated testapihost :: pLingly in the system. Config applied, Nagios Core was restarted."
}

In the API docs onboard XI it says:
"This command creates or updates a service object. To update, a host_name or config_name must be specified to find the specific service. If you have special characters in the config_name or service_description and cannot pass it through the path, you can use config/service with the old_config_name=<config_name> and old_service_description=<service_description> URL parameters instead."

Aaron