POST from AS400

[KayP5]

I am trying to write an interface from an iSeries (AS400) platform using RPG as the programming language, so none of your examples apply.

Currently, I'm trying to add a new contact and am getting Error 415 with the following message:
    Content type: 'text/xml' is not accepted by this collection. Accepted type(s) are: 'application/atom+xml;type=entry'.

Can you tell me where I am going wrong?

Here is the XML I am sending with the POST.  I reconstructed it from the XML I retrieved from a GET:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <id>http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/healthywoman/contacts</id>
  <title type="text">Contacts for Customer: healthywoman</title>
  <link href="contacts"></link>
  <link href="contacts" rel="self"></link>
  <author>
    <name>healthywoman</name>
  </author>
  <updated>2011-09-14T17:01:58.795Z</updated>
  <link href="/ws/customers/healthywoman/contacts" rel="first"></link>
  <content type="application/atom+xml">
  <entry>
    <id>data:,none</id>
    <title type="text">Contact: me@chs.net</title>
    <updated>2011-09-14T17:01:58.833Z</updated>
    <author></author>
      <name>Constant Contact</name>
    <summary type="text">Contact</summary>
    <content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml">
      <Contact xmlns="http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/">
        <EmailAddress>me@chs.net</EmailAddress>
        <EmailType>HTML</EmailType>
        <Name>April</Name>
        <OptInSource>ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER</OptInSource>
        <ContactLists>
             <ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/healthywoman/lists/1" />
        </ContactLists>
      </Contact>
    </content>
  </entry>
 </content>
</feed>

Thanks,

Danny

[Ryan_D]

Hey Kay,

You are using the wrong content-type.  You need to use

application/atom+xml

 Also if you are creating a new contact you don't want to use information from a previous GET.  You want to use this information below

<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <title type="text"> </title>
  <updated>2008-07-23T14:21:06.407Z</updated>
  <author></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>test_100@example.com</EmailAddress>
      <OptInSource>ACTION_BY_CONTACT</OptInSource>
      <ContactLists>
        <ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/lists/1" />
      </ContactLists>
    </Contact>
  </content>
</entry>

Now if you are trying to do a GET on a specific contact and modify it.  You would reconstruct your XML and do a PUT to get the information into constant contact.

Please let me know if this helps.

[KayP5]

Thanks for the reply, Ryan.

This is Danny...the developer, not Kay.

I have application/atom+xml as the content type in the header just before <Entry>.  (12th line)

And your example uses <content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml"> in the <Entry>, just as mine does.

Sorry, I don't understand.

Danny

[Ryan_D]

Hey Danny,

If you are trying to create a new contact use the XML i provided and do a POST to the URI of contacts. 

https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/username/contacts

 That will create a new contact for you.