API change? Course created in wrong account.

[alexei-bezpaltc]

Hello.

Just a few days ago this code:

string command = "/api/v1/accounts/18/courses";

var courseData = new { name=courseName, course_format="blended", account_id= "18", start_at =startDate, ends_at=endDate};
string jsonContent = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new { course = courseData });
var httpContent = new StringContent(jsonContent, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");

var response = await httpHelperCanvas.PostCommandAsync(command, httpContent);

was creating a course in account #18, BUT today it creates a course in account #1

Have Instructure changed something in API? Any idea what's going on?

Additionally I have tried to update new course to move it in my account:

string command = "/api/v1/courses/<NewCourseId>";
var courseData = new { account_id="18"  };
string jsonContent = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new { course = courseData });
var httpContent = new StringContent(jsonContent, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");

var response = await httpHelperCanvas.PutCommandAsync(command, httpContent)

It returns 200 but doesn't do anything.

Thank you for any input!

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Apparently there was an issue with the system.

Beta had stalled on several jobs, At the end of the day everything started working, and a bunch of my "lost" courses appeared without any further actions from me.

Thank you everybody for the help.

[James]

The code was last changed a couple of years ago.

I'm just throwing some stuff out there, running late for a meeting and don't have time to fully think through or investigate...

Are you sure that account 18 still exists using GET /api/v1/accounts/18

Does the user account you're using have access to account 18?

Technically, the course.account_id is undocumented, but it's definitely in the code. There is something in the code that looks at that number, if specified, and compares it to the account_id specified in the path. If it's not the same it finds a child of the account. Have you tried it without the account_id inside the payload?

[alexei-bezpaltc]

Thanks for quick reply.

>Are you sure that account 18 still exists using GET /api/v1/accounts/18

 Yes. I should add 18 is a child account to 1

>Does the user account you're using have access to account 18?

 I can do staff through UI...

>Have you tried it without the account_id inside the payload?

Yes. same result

[bneporadny]

Hi Alexei B,

I am doing something very similar and am not seeing the issue you are describing.  

Are you only having issues with courses being created in the sub-account ID of 18? Is the code still working to create a course in say a sub-account with an ID of 17?

[alexei-bezpaltc]

Unfortunately I don't have access to any other accounts. only 1 and 18.

[alexei-bezpaltc]

Additionally I have tried to update new course to move it in my account:

string command = "/api/v1/courses/<NewCourseId>";
var courseData = new { account_id="18"  };
string jsonContent = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new { course = courseData });
var httpContent = new StringContent(jsonContent, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");

var response = await httpHelperCanvas.PutCommandAsync(command, httpContent)

It returns 200 but doesn't do anything.

[bneporadny]

Hi Alexei B,

I believe the issue is you're including the account_id="18" in your courseData.  I don't believe this is necessary as you're specifying the account in your URL already and therefore not needed in the courseData string.  

The parameters that I have in my courseData string are name, course_code, term_id, sis_course_id, time_zone and whether or not the course is marked as published upon creation. 

Can you try removing the account_Id from your courseData string and see if that corrects the issue?

[alexei-bezpaltc]

I did try removing account_id from the courseData and I added  Offer="true" but that didn't change anything....

[alexei-bezpaltc · Accepted solution]

Apparently there was an issue with the system.

Beta had stalled on several jobs, At the end of the day everything started working, and a bunch of my "lost" courses appeared without any further actions from me.

Thank you everybody for the help.