PHP Rest Api multiple paramaters how to send with curl

Question

Getting stuck at post to a Rest API with multiple arguments. I'm trying to change nameservers with an API.

The error i get: "ObjectInvalid|Nameserver object invalid. Minimum of 2 nameservers is required.".

I understand the "ns" part is wrong. In the guide i only find this: "ns" : [{ns="ns1.domain.com", nsip=""},{ns="ns2.domain.com", nsip=""}],

This is my code:

   $values = array(
      "domain" => "mydomain.com",
      "ns" => "[{ns='ns1.domain.com', nsip=''},{ns='ns2.domain.com', nsip=''}]",
      "contact_id" =>  123456,
      "years" => 1
    );
    
    // Set POST to 1 and send the array with values as a JSON-string
    curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_POST => 1,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode($values),
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://www.apiurl.com/api/v1/domains/$domain/update",
    CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH => CURLAUTH_ANY,
    CURLOPT_USERPWD => "username:password"
    ));

That sounds like a question to the API owners? We don't even know what API it is, so it's pretty hard for us to know what or how they expect the data. Have you tried adding the ns-string as a PHP array instead? You're already running json_encode() of the complete payload anyway. — M. Eriksson
– M. Eriksson, Commented Dec 14, 2020 at 16:24
You shouldn't build a JSON string manually like this: "ns" => "[{ns='ns1.domain.com', nsip=''},{ns='ns2.domain.com', nsip=''}]". Since you run it through json_encode($values) later, that gets double encoded and then most likely cannot be understood by the API. Make it a normal PHP subarray and let json_encode do the job. — El_Vanja
– El_Vanja, Commented Dec 14, 2020 at 16:27

Zoli Szabó · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-14 16:28:37Z

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It's hard to tell exactly without seeing the documentation, but most probably you should leave the serialization of the nameservers to json_encode too:

$values = array(
    "domain" => "mydomain.com",
    "ns" => [
        [
            "ns" => "ns1.domain.com",
            "nsip" => ""
        ],
        [
            "ns" => "ns2.domain.com",
            "nsip" => ""
        ],
    ],
    "contact_id" =>  123456,
    "years" => 1
);

edited Dec 14, 2020 at 16:28

answered Dec 14, 2020 at 16:26

Zoli Szabó

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2 Comments

El_Vanja Over a year ago

Just one tiny thing - nameservers, not namespaces.

Silver Over a year ago

Yes this is it! Thanks for helping out so fast! (Have to wait untill I can except the answer)

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