Create a new user using the REST API

Openfire Plugins
1

Hi I try to create a new user using the rest API but I get the response below

{
    "resource": "users",
    "message": "Could not create new user",
    "exception": "IllegalArgumentException",
    "exceptionStack": null
}

I use the post method as shown below
http://im.nibbletec.com:9090/plugins/restapi/v1/users?username=ag03&password=123

2

Although I cannot exactly reproduce the problem that you’re having, I believe that it is caused by adding the data for the new user as query parameters instead of as a body posted in the HTTP request.

With the latest (development) code of Openfire (4.7.0-SNAPSHOT) and the restAPI plugin (1.7.0-SNAPSHOT) the following curl request works as intended:

curl -v -X POST --header "Authorization: foobar" \
   --header "Content-Type: application/xml" \
   http://localhost:9090/plugins/restapi/v1/users \
   -d "<user><username>ag03</username><password>123</password></user>"

A potential other source of problems might be using a read-only user-base, such as LDAP or AD.

Your log files probably hold more clues as to what’s going wrong exactly.