Post Json API giving error 500, what I'm doing wrong? - php

Question

I'm trying to create a new client in my API using php cURL. Clients, products and everything that is created is by POST method. This is my code:
$json='{
"data": {
"type": "customers",
"attributes": {
"tax_registration_number": "5555555550",
"business_name": "Test customer",
"contact_name": "Mr. Test",
"website": "https://www.testurl.pt",
"phone_number": "2299999999",
"mobile_number": "9299999999",
"email": "test#testcustomer.pt",
"observations": "This is only a test",
"internal_observations": "This is good customer",
"not_final_customer": null,
"cashed_vat": null,
"tax_country_region": "PT-MA"
},
"relationships": {
"main_address": {
"data": {
"type": "addresses",
"id": 1
}
},
"addresses": {
"data": [
{
"type": "addresses",
"id": 1
},
{
"type": "addresses",
"id": 2
}
]
}
}
}
}';
print($json);
Here I iniciate the cURL, I have the token and the authorization already:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,($url));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,($json));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json',
'Accept: application/json',
'Authorization: Bearer ' . $token,
));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump ($response);
$response=json_decode($response,true);
curl_close ($ch);
This is the response that I have:
string(329) "{"errors":[{"status":"500 Internal Server Error","code":"JA006","detail":"Erro de sistema JA006: erro interno na base de dados. Por favor contacte o suporte técnico.","meta":{"internal-error":"in JsonapiJson::Value::operator[](ArrayIndex)const: requires arrayValue"}}],"jsonapi":{"version": "1.0","meta":{"libversion":"2.4.1"}}}"
Can someone please help me?
Thanks!

Answer 1

The API error states this: in JsonapiJson::Value::operator[](ArrayIndex)const: requires arrayValue.
Are you sure that JSON is the correct format? It seems like you are probably providing an object in the JSON where the server expects an array of objects. For example, check if data, or relationships, or addresses should be arrays.
My top guess would be instead of:
"addresses": {
"data": [
{
"type": "addresses",
"id": 1
},
{
"type": "addresses",
"id": 2
}
]
}
Maybe it's supposed to be
"addresses":[
{
"type": "addresses",
"id": 1
},
{
"type": "addresses",
"id": 2
}
]
I certainly can't tell you for sure, since I don't know the API you are trying to use, but I highly suspect it's a case like this where it's expecting an array, but you're providing an object.