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  1. POHow to submit a POST request to Apache Syncope API in node.js?
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    copied!<p>Salam (means Hello) :)</p> <p>In my node.js application, I am trying to add a user to Apache Syncope via its RESTful API. Apache Syncope is installed on a remote VPS and <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/Calling+RESTful+services+from+CLI#CallingRESTfulservicesfromCLI-Exportdatabasecontent" rel="nofollow">this article</a> demonstrate this process in a PHP environment. here is what I did in my node.js application:</p> <pre><code>http.createServer(onRequest).listen(80); function onRequest (request, response) { var options = { hostname: MY_VPS_IP, port: 8080, path: '/syncope/rest/user/create.json', auth: 'admin:password', method: 'POST' }; var data = {an: 'object', of: 'new', user: 'data' }; var req=http.request(options, function(res) { var body; res.on('data', function (chunk) { body += chunk; }); res.on('end', function () { response.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/html' }); response.end(body, 'utf-8'); }); }); req.end(JSON.stringify(data)); } </code></pre> <p>The response of Apache Syncope is a 415 error (css styles omitted):</p> <pre><code>undefined &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Apache Tomcat/7.0.42 - Error report&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt;&lt;h1&gt;HTTP Status 415 - &lt;/h1&gt; &lt;HR size="1" noshade="noshade"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;type&lt;/b&gt; Status report&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;message&lt;/b&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;description&lt;/b&gt; &lt;u&gt;The server refused this request because the request entity is in a format not supported by the requested resource for the requested method.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;HR size="1" noshade="noshade"&gt; &lt;h3&gt;Apache Tomcat/7.0.42&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre>
 

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