vCO 5.5.2 and vCAC 6.1 plugin REST API Error

[rickvelez]

Hello,

I'm getting an error when trying to make calls from vCO 5.5.2 to the vCAC 6.1 REST API requesting catalog items.  This same code works fine with the vCAC 6.0.1 plugin.

Error:

Data serialization error. (Workflow:Test vCAC Rest / Scriptable task (item1)#24)

Code:

var item = {"@type": "CatalogItemRequest",

"catalogItemRef": {"id": "3e6c3f13-6ea0-4da5-8bac-d8cb27e64f24"},

"organization": {"tenantRef": "vcacadmin",

"subtenantRef": "e931debb-6200-40e5-89a7-01d35d0cc306"},

"requestedFor": "vcacadmin@sddc.lab",

"state": "SUBMITTED",

"requestNumber": 0,

"requestData": {"entries": [

{"key": "provider-blueprintId", "value": {"type": "string", "value" : "catalogItem.id"}},

{"key": "provider-provisioningGroupId", "value": {"type": "string", "value": "e931debb-6200-40e5-89a7-01d35d0cc306"}},

{"key": "requestedFor", "value": {"type": "string", "value": "vcacadmin@sddc.lab"}},

{"key": "provider-VirtualMachine.CPU.Count", "value": {"type": "integer", "value": 1}},

{"key": "provider-VirtualMachine.Memory.Size", "value": {"type": "integer", "value": 1024}},

{"key": "provider-VirtualMachine.LeaseDays", "value": {"type": "integer", "value": 0}},

{"key": "provider-__Notes", "value": {"type": "string", "value": "Test"}},

{"key": "provider-VirtualMachine.Disk0.Size", "value": {"type": "string", "value": "40"}}, 

{"key": "provider-VirtualMachine.Disk1.Size", "value": {"type": "string", "value": "8"}}]}}

var catalogRest = vcac.createRestClient(vCACCAFEServicesEnum.CATALOG_SERVICE);

var response = catalogRest.post("consumer/requests",item);

[rickvelez]

Specific error:

ERROR {vcoadmin@sddc.lab:Test vCAC Rest:a8803401-703f-449d-a088-eab3b2238ea3:ff8080814b6fb8a5014b745d4fc10128} [ResponseErrorHandler] [Rest Error]: {Status code: 400}, {Error code: 10104} , {Error Source: null}, {Error Msg: Data serialization error.}, {System Msg: Could not read JSON: Unexpected token (END_OBJECT), expected FIELD_NAME: missing property '@type' that is to contain type id  (for class com.vmware.vcac.catalog.domain.request.Request)

at [Source: com.vmware.vcac.authentication.http.ServiceHttpServletRequestWrapper$BufferedServletInputStream@100655c6; line: 1, column: 1024]; nested exception is com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Unexpected token (END_OBJECT), expected FIELD_NAME: missing property '@type' that is to contain type id  (for class com.vmware.vcac.catalog.domain.request.Request)

[rickvelez · Accepted solution]

vCAC 6.0.x plugin is expecting an json object in the rest call.

6.1 plugin is expecting a json string value.

This will do the trick:

var response = catalogRest.post("consumer/requests", JSON.stringify(item));