Hi eveveryone,
I'm a developer and I'm automating the update of user avatars using the following endpoint (using Python 3):
https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/users.html#method.users.update
PUT /api/v1/users/:id
We're having issues with some users not getting their avatar updated while others do.
We are successfully sending the http request:
- as a parameter, i pass the token for the uploaded file that I want to set as the avatar
- this file is already successfully uploaded to the user's "profile pictures" directory.
- To remove any other variables, we uploaded the same image for each of the users
- we get a response, with status code of 200
However, we're not getting consistent results.
In the http request response for each user, we see two scenarios:
- Success - The first is when the avatar update is successful
- the response text includes user details
- in the details, i can confirm that the avatar has been updated to the corresponding photo matching the token sent
- in there, I can also verify that the avatar state is locked, which is what we want
- Not Updated - The second scenario is where the avatar is not updated
- the status code is 200 for this also, no http error
- the response text includes user details, but with fewer detail fields when compared to the details we get from scenario 1 above
- in this scenario's details, we can see the avatar url is pointing to this particular file: our_domain/images/messages/avatar-50.png
- we have tried to see if there is a difference in the users that fail, but have not found anything that diffirentiates them
- in addition, there have been times when some users who had their avatar updated successfully before (scenario 1 above), now fall under this 2nd scenario
We have only done this in our TEST environment.
Any ideas on what is causing this?
Thanks in advance for your help!
