Heya folks! I was looking at API 500 on user creation if username is integer and can only kinda reproduce it, using curl. I’m looking through the docs to see if there is a useful output to capture to assist in figuring out what is happening, and then remember httpie as well… And then I thought I’d just ping the @support-explorers and ask if they would share tools and recipes they use to debug the API! :sunglasses: What do you use to troubleshoot and interact with the API? :computer: :spider_web: :mag:

In general, I am a huge fan of Postman. it helps to emulate API calls and their responses.

I generally use Insomnia or Postman for any API debugging (not just Discourse), I don’t really have any collections to share to speed that up for you though :smiley:

[image] itsbhanusharma: fan of Postman. it helps to emulate API calls and their responses. That’s great, that’s what I’m looking for. :slight_smile: [image] rorycb: I generally use Insomnia or Postman I also use insomnia to get through some wicked problems… :tired_face: Oh, you meant https://insomnia.rest/! :slight_smile: (TIL: there is a .rest TLD!)

Hi @maiki, thanks for looking into this! Here’s a CURL request you can use, which was generated from postman (if you’d like). This generates a 500: curl --location --request POST 'https://XXX.com/users.json' \ --header 'Api-Key: XXX' \ --header 'Api-Username: XXX' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --data-raw '{ "name": "XXX", "email": "XXX@mail.com", "password": "aTestPAssword", "username": 1, "active": true, "approved": true }'

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maiki (maiki) April 2, 2022, 5:17pm 4

That’s great, that’s what I’m looking for.

I also use insomnia to get through some wicked problems…

Oh, you meant https://insomnia.rest/!

(TIL: there is a .rest TLD!)

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