RESTful API Call Illegal Argument

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I am attempting to update the description of a folder object using RESTful API calls in JSON format and I am getting an Illegal Argument error. Has anyone encountered this before? Any suggestions? The account I am using with the RESTful call is an administrator account.

Headers for 'Content-Type' and 'Accept' are both set to 'application/json'.

| Request Meth: PUT

| Request URL: /v1/folders/775822

| Request Body: {"description":"Restful Folder updated by RESTfulAPITester"}

| Response Code: 400

{"error_code":"RWS 000019","message":"Illegal Argument: {\"description\":\"Restful Folder updated by RESTfulAPITester\"} (RWS 000019)"}

We are running BusinessObjects 4.2, SP7, Patch 02 on Apache Tomcat 9.0.20

[daniel_paulsen · Accepted solution]

Hi Michael,

it appears the minimum attributes you can pass must include the name of the folder and its parentid. a request body similar to below should work:

{ "name": "Test Folder", "description": "Restful Folder updated by RESTfulAPITester", "parentid": "23" }

Dan

[MichaelGrackin · Accepted solution]

AWESOME! Thanks Daniel. This fixed the issue.

How did you determine this? Is this documented anywhere?

[MichaelGrackin · Accepted solution]

It appears this is a requirement for updating other objects such as Categories. I was having the same issue with updating Categories and this fixed the issue.