Error response for service

[leven.steve]

I saw something similar yesterday with the Appery user login function on a server code script as it happens and I'm working out how to make it work for me. If I find anything useful I'll post it
here.

[leven.steve]

Terry try this way if it suits. My server code script looks like this:
code
var username = request.get("username");
var password = request.get("password");
var userLoginInfo = {};
var result = {};
try {
token = DatabaseUser.login(RTdatabaseId, username, password);
var user = DatabaseUser.retrieve(RTdatabaseId, token._id, "employee");
userLoginInfo = _.extend(user,token);
result = userLoginInfo;
}
catch (e) {
result = {"employee":userLoginInfo};
}
response.success(result, "application/json");
/code

So I always get back success.data.employee which is populated if it was successful or an empty object {} if it failed.

Then in my JS code I test for the empty object like this:
code
var userInfoData = success.data.employee;
if (Object.getOwnPropertyNames(userInfoData).length === 0) {
[alert the user, etc.]
}
/code

[Serhii Kulibaba]

Terry, please check on the network tab your request parameters and server response. I think, your service returns header code=200 everytime, even it is wrong request

[Terry Gilliver]

I am actually getting an error code of 400 Bad Request when the service is called from the app. but the service test works correctly returning an error code of 401 Unauthorized

[Terry Gilliver]

images from the network tab:

[Serhii Kulibaba]

Could you disable the proxy and send us the same screenshot again? Also, please check, does that request work in API Express?

[Terry Gilliver]

If try with the proxy disabled, there is no response:

I have never used api express, so I am unsure how to send the request from there.

[Terry Gilliver]

using API express, I get the following response for a valid login:

pre{
"BODY": {
"id": 4,
"firstname": "",
"lastname": "",
"businessname": "",
"gender": "",
"mobile": "",
"email": "",
"streetaddress": "",
"address2": "",
"town": "",
"county": "",
"postcode": "",
"adinumber": "333333",
"hourlyrate": 0,
"makeandmodel": "",
"transmission": "",
"fueltype": "",
"areascovered": "",
"radius": 0,
"bankdetails": "",
"monziaregistered": 0,
"monziapassword": "",
"striperegistered": 0,
"stripereference": "",
"invoicingrequired": 0,
"logourl": "",
"lastinvoicenumber": 0,
"publicdiary": 0,
"owdextensions": 0,
"databaseuserid": 17,
"token": "Basic MzMzMzMzOnJhdmluZQ=="
},
"HTTP_RESPONSE_HEADERS": {
"Transfer-Encoding": "chunked",
"Date": "Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:43:44 GMT",
"Expires": "0",
"Keep-Alive": "timeout=3, max=170",
"Set-Cookie": "PHPSESSID=7200c8f236364f99948e6b6c8be81603; path=/",
"Content-Type": "text/plain",
"Connection": "Keep-Alive",
"Server": "Apache",
"Pragma": "no-cache",
"Cache-Control": "no-cache, must-revalidate"
},
"HTTP_RESPONSE_CODE": 200
}/pre

and the following for an invalid login:

pre{
"BODY": {
"error": {
"code": 401,
"message": "Unauthorised"
}
},
"HTTP_RESPONSE_HEADERS": {
"Transfer-Encoding": "chunked",
"Date": "Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:46:12 GMT",
"Expires": "0",
"Keep-Alive": "timeout=3, max=170",
"Set-Cookie": "PHPSESSID=01d286fdcb97682892891bfd2eab9907; path=/",
"Content-Type": "text/plain",
"Connection": "Keep-Alive",
"Server": "Apache",
"Pragma": "no-cache",
"Cache-Control": "no-cache, must-revalidate"
},
"HTTP_RESPONSE_CODE": 401
}/pre

which is as I was expecting, so yes, it works there

[Serhii Kulibaba]

Please clarify, does it work, do you need further assistance?

[Terry Gilliver]

no I don't have it fixed, only that the API Express works the way it should. I haven't been using API express, so, if you think i should use that instead of creating my own services in the app, can you point me to some documentation / videos which will help me understand how to use API express correctly?