Dear Mehdi, Only based on my experience (and not on a strong knowledge about REST), see some answers below.
On 04/08/2015 03:00, Mehdi Oulmakki wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am running into issues with getting any information from my instance of > Xwiki using the rest API. I'm curling to the site as per this > documentation: > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/XWikiRESTfulAPI#HXWikiRESTfulAPIDocumentation > > Our instance of XWiki responds with a 200 for GET and POST calls (I'm aware > of the known issue with PUT) but doesn't actually give us relevant > information. The returned data is html for a page with the message: > > <div class="panel-body"> > <p class="xwikimessage">A problem occurred while trying to process > your request. Please contact the webmaster if this happens a > gain.</p> > </div> > > > I have four questions concerning this situation: > > 1. Is the documentation up to date? have there been changes with the > REST api in XWiki 7 that aren't reflected there? As far as I know, pretty much up-to-date. I'm using it on a v7 and it works pretty well. Which particular functionality do you use? > 2. Are there config settings that need to be set before being able to > use the REST api? It should work without any settings. Usually, I run a XWiki and it works (without specific configuration). > 3. Should I be concerned that I am getting a simple html instead of the > XML the documentation suggests? I usually get an HTML when an error happen (invalid address, wrong authentication, etc.). Try to check also the --header in your Curl. Usually, you have to specify the 'Content-type' for PUT/POST methods and the 'Accept' (application/xml in your case) for GET methods. > 4. This is probably the most crucial question: How can I best debug such > an issue? all our logs are set to debug, yet I am not seeing any error > message related to this. Can you elaborate a bit on what you've did? Jetty? Tomcat? Where did you configure logs? What log are you looking at? NB: I'll can probably not give you advices on the best debug strategy (I never did that) but I guess that these information I ask may be useful for somebody else to answer to you ;-) I hope this helps. > > Thanks in advance, > > Mehdi > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Jean Simard jean.sim...@xwiki.com Research engineer at XWiki SAS http://www.xwiki.com Committer on the XWiki.org project http://www.xwiki.org _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
