Cannot Create Contact, But Contact Also Not Found

[bpritchard]

When I attempt to do a REST Contact Lookup by email address, I get a 500 Server Error, which the documentation says indicates that a contact is not found by that email address.

When I try to subsequently create the Contact via a REST POST, I also get an error.

I can't find the email address in question anywhere in my online member list, so I'm wondering why the Contact Creation is erroring out.

REST Call #1: Lookup Contact By Email Address:

Request:

Method: GET

URL: https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/betaupsilonchi/contacts?email=david.adams%40chk.com

Response:

HTTP Status Code: 500

Response Text: Error 500: Server Error

REST Call #2: Create Contact:

Request:

Method: POST

URL: https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/betaupsilonchi/contacts

POST Data:

<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

  <title type="text"></title>

  <updated>2010-09-27T12:00:00.000Z</updated>

  <author />

  <id>data:,none</id>

  <summary type="text">Contact</summary>

  <content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml">

    <Contact xmlns="http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0">

      <EmailAddress>david.adams@chk.com</EmailAddress>

      <OptInSource>ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER</OptInSource>

      <ContactLists>

        <ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/betaupsilonchi/lists/2"/>

      </ContactLists>

    </Contact>

  </content>

</entry>

Response:

HTTP Status Code: 500

Response Text: Error 500: Server Error

[bsoder]

Hello,



I have looked over the issue you are having with making calls to our API servers and getting 500 errors. I was not able to recreate the issue you are having with the search for contact. When I did a GET to the URI: https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/(USERNAME)/contacts?email=david.adams%40chk.com, it returns XML.



I did recreate the issue that you are having with the POST you are doing. The reason you are getting the 500 error is because you do not have a / at the end of <Contact xmlns="http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0">.



It should be <Contact xmlns="http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/">



Regards,

[bpritchard]

Thanks for checking Ben - I'm still getting the 500 error on the GET.

I copy-pasted the URI you listed into my browser and entered my credentials, and the server still gave me a 500 error. I also tried this via the REST client and received the same result.

The source code of the response is:

Error 500: Server Error

Why would I be getting a different result?

[bsoder]

Hi,



Is it possible for you to do this request and get the 500 error again in the REST Client, and then save the Request to an RCQ file and send it to the Webservices Support team. We can then get a better understanding of what is going on.



Regards,

[David_J]

It does appear there is an issue when attempting to retrieve contact details for an address that is not a contact, but has registered for an event in your account, where our API will return a 500 error.

We have let our engineering team know about this, and I will reply to this post once this issue has been resolved. I apologize for any inconvenience that this issue has caused.