Error 415 when updating contact lists

[NickC63]

I'm trying to update a contact and I believe I'm doing everything right.  However, I receive the following error:

Error 415: The request contains errors in the common Atom sections, which lie outside <entry> or <Content>, such as <feed>, <id>, <author> or <updated>.

I'm trying to add the contact to another contact list and I'm using PUT with a modified version of the data I receive from a GET on that contact.  Here's the XML that I'm trying to PUT

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
	<link href="/ws/customers/TrellistNick/contacts/1" rel="edit"></link>
	<id>http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/TrellistNick/contacts/1</id>
	<title type="text">Contact: ncohen@trellist.com</title>
	<updated>2011-08-18T21:00:53.503Z</updated>
	<author>
		<name>Constant Contact</name>
	</author>
	<content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml">
		<Contact xmlns="http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/" id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/TrellistNick/contacts/1">
			<Status>Active</Status>
			<EmailAddress>ncohen@trellist.com</EmailAddress>
			<EmailType>HTML</EmailType>
			<Name>Nick Cohen</Name>
			<FirstName>Nick</FirstName>
			<MiddleName></MiddleName>
			<LastName>Cohen</LastName>
			<JobTitle></JobTitle>
			<CompanyName></CompanyName>
			<HomePhone></HomePhone>
			<WorkPhone></WorkPhone>
			<Addr1></Addr1>
			<Addr2></Addr2>
			<Addr3></Addr3>
			<City></City>
			<StateCode></StateCode>
			<StateName></StateName>
			<CountryCode></CountryCode>
			<CountryName></CountryName>
			<PostalCode></PostalCode>
			<SubPostalCode></SubPostalCode>
			<Note></Note>
			<CustomField1></CustomField1>
			<CustomField2></CustomField2>
			<CustomField3></CustomField3>
			<CustomField4></CustomField4>
			<CustomField5></CustomField5>
			<CustomField6></CustomField6>
			<CustomField7></CustomField7>
			<CustomField8></CustomField8>
			<CustomField9></CustomField9>
			<CustomField10></CustomField10>
			<CustomField11></CustomField11>
			<CustomField12></CustomField12>
			<CustomField13></CustomField13>
			<CustomField14></CustomField14>
			<CustomField15></CustomField15>
			<ContactLists>
				<ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/TrellistNick/lists/1">
					<link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/TrellistNick/lists/1" rel="self"></link>
					<OptInSource>ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER</OptInSource>
					<OptInTime>2011-08-16T18:50:52.361Z</OptInTime>
				</ContactList>
				<ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/TrellistNick/lists/3">
					<link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/TrellistNick/lists/3" rel="self"></link>
					<OptInSource>ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER</OptInSource>
					<OptInTime>2011-08-18T21:00:53.519Z</OptInTime>
				</ContactList>
				<ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/TrellistNick/lists/2">
					<link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/TrellistNick/lists/2" rel="self"></link>
					<OptInSource>ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER</OptInSource>
					<OptInTime>2011-08-16T18:50:52.361Z</OptInTime>
				</ContactList>
			</ContactLists>
			<Confirmed>true</Confirmed>
			<InsertTime>2011-08-16T18:50:52.358Z</InsertTime>
			<LastUpdateTime>2011-08-18T21:00:53.503Z</LastUpdateTime>
		</Contact>
	</content>
	<source>
		<id>http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/TrellistNick/contacts</id>
		<title type="text">Contacts for Customer: TrellistNick</title>
		<link href="contacts"></link>
		<link href="contacts" rel="self"></link>
		<author>
			<name>TrellistNick</name>
		</author>
		<updated>2011-08-22T18:30:28.797Z</updated>
	</source>
</entry>

All I've done to the information that I receive is add the third <ContactList></ContactList> membership.  Any help would be much appreciated. 

[Ryan_D CTCT Employee · Accepted solution]

Hi Nick,

It sounds like your headers may not be being set.  When you do a PUT to your Contact you need to specify that you are setting your Content-Type to application/atom+xml. 

Please let me know if this works for you.

[NickC63]

Thanks for the tip Ryan...that worked.  I re-used too much of my code from my GET function and forgot that the content-type header needed to be set for the PUT request. 

Thanks again,

-Nick

[BonnieS78]

Hi Ryan ,

 Me also got the same error like   "Error 415: The request contains errors in the common Atom sections, which lie outside <entry> or <Content>, such as <feed>, <id>, <author> or <updated>."

my code is

entry

XmlText   XmlAttributes struct xmlns http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom title XmlText   XmlAttributes struct type text updated XmlText 2012-10-26T03:18:05:74Z author XmlText   id XmlText 1022 summary XmlText Contact XmlAttributes struct type text content XmlText   XmlAttributes struct type application/Atom+xml Contact XmlText   XmlAttributes struct xmlns http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/ EmailAddress XmlText tnorthru@yahoo.com EmailType XmlText   FirstName XmlText   MiddleName XmlText   LastName XmlText   JobTitle XmlText   CompanyName XmlText   WorkPhone XmlText   HomePhone XmlText   Addr1 XmlText   Addr2 XmlText   Addr3 XmlText   City XmlText   StateCode XmlText   StateName XmlText   CountryCode XmlText   PostalCode XmlText   SubPostalCode XmlText   Note XmlText   CustomField1 XmlText   CustomField2 XmlText   CustomField3 XmlText   CustomField4 XmlText   CustomField5 XmlText   CustomField6 XmlText   CustomField7 XmlText   CustomField8 XmlText   CustomField9 XmlText   CustomField10 XmlText   CustomField11 XmlText   CustomField12 XmlText   CustomField13 XmlText   CustomField14 XmlText   CustomField15 XmlText   Note XmlText   OptInSource XmlText ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER ContactLists XmlText   ContactList XmlText   XmlAttributes struct id http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/username/lists/20

PLease let me know solution

thanks

[Shannon_W Moderator]

Hi,

I'm not sure what program you're using to build your XML here, but could you post the XML that this produces?

Best Regards,

Shannon W.

API Support Specialist