cannot save page properties via API

[senad]

Hey there,

I am trying to save my pageproperties via API-Call.

Unfortunately it doesn't work

When I try to save I get a 207 status and the properties are not saved



Here is my Code in JavaScript:

/**
 * Sets the Page Properties
 * @param page_path path of the new page
 * @param properties map of properties
 */
var setPageProperties = function(page_path, properties) {
  
  var api_properties = Deki.$('<properties></properties>');
  
  for(var key in properties) {
    var propertyname = key;
    var propertytext = properties[key];
    $('<property></property>').attr('name', propertyname)
      .append('<contents>'+propertytext+'</contents>').attr('type','text/plain')
      .appendTo(api_properties);
  }
  
  api_properties = '<properties>'+api_properties.html()+'</properties>';
  
  alert(api_properties);
  
  var pageapi = '/@api/deki/pages/=' + Deki.url.encode(Deki.url.encode(page_path));
  $.ajax({
    url: pageapi + '/properties',
    type: 'PUT',
    contentType: 'text/xml',
    processData: true,
    data: api_properties,
    complete: function(xhr) {
      if(xhr.status == 200) {
        //gets executed when properties get set successfully.
        loadPage(page_path);
      } else {
        //alert('Unable to create/modify Page Properties. Perhaps you do not have permission.');
        alert(xhr.status);
      }
    }
  });
}

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Senad

[SteveB]

Use PUT if you want to update a property and POST if you want to create one. Or pass in ?abort=never to tell the API to ignore these constraints.

[senad]

Use PUT if you want to update a property and POST if you want to create one. Or pass in ?abort=never to tell the API to ignore these constraints.

okay, thank you.

---

I found an error in my implementation.
the ".attr" function works differently than i expected it to. now I've modified everything to do what I want it to do.

/**
 * Sets the Page Properties
 * @param page_path path of the new page
 * @param properties map of properties
 */
var setPageProperties = function(page_path, properties) {
  
  var api_properties = Deki.$('<properties></properties>');
  
  for(var key in properties) {
    var propertyname = key;
    var propertytext = properties[key];
    $('<property></property>').attr('name', propertyname)
      .append('<contents type="text/plain">'+propertytext+'</contents>')
      .appendTo(api_properties);
  }
  
  api_properties = '<properties>'+api_properties.html()+'</properties>';
  
  alert(api_properties+' | '+page_path);
  
  var pageapi = '/@api/deki/pages/=' + Deki.url.encode(Deki.url.encode(page_path));
  $.ajax({
    url: pageapi + '/properties?abort=never',
    type: 'PUT',
    contentType: 'text/xml',
    processData: true,
    data: api_properties,
    complete: function(xhr) {
      if(xhr.status == 200) {
        //gets executed when properties get set successfully.
        loadPage(page_path);
      } else {
        //alert('Unable to create/modify Page Properties. Perhaps you do not have permission.');
        alert(xhr.status+': '+xhr.responseText);
      }
    }
  });
}

That piece of code works once.
No matter whether the property has previously been created or not. It then however does not execute the "complete"-statement.

when I try to execute the function a second time I get an Error-Message:

207: <properties count="0" href="http://mydomain.com/21891/properties"><property name="name"><status code="409">Given ETag '' for resource id '26138' does not match ETag for HEAD revision.</status></property><property name="region"><status code="409">Given ETag '' for resource id '26139' does not match ETag for HEAD revision.</status></property></properties>

I don't understand what is going on.

Thanks in advance.

regards,
Senad

[senad]

I still can't figure out why my code doesn't work...

the concatenated String looks just like the curl sample to me.

<properties>
  <property name="x">
    <contents type="text/plain">123</contents>
  </property>
  <property name="y">
    <contents type="text/plain">321</contents>
  </property>
</properties>

Please help me.

Regards,
Senad

[SteveB]

Did you look at the code in this js file? I used it for some prototyping and it worked well: http://scripts.mindtouch.com/res/deki/mindtouch.deki.js