Calling Particle Auth Api with JSON

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#1

Hi All,

Apologies in advance if this info is elsewhere on the forum, could not find through searching, but feel free to delete or close if elsewhere.

I am testing some shadow customer creation for a product in postman and looking for some guidance.

I am trying to create a new user with POST and the following url: https://api.particle.io/v1/products/:productlD/customers

I do not have auth turned on but my JSON looks like this:

{
    "productIdOrSlug": ":productID",
    "client_id": "12345666blahblahblah",
    "email": "test@gmail.com",
    "no_password": "true",
    "response_type": "token"
}

The response I get is this:

{
    "ok": false,
    "error": "Product not found."
}

I’m pretty sure I have a formatting issue of I’m missing something from my JSON, but can’t figure out what it is.

#2

Do you literally have :productID in your URL or do you rather have it replaced with your actual product ID?

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#3

Sorry @ScruffR,

I have my product ID where :productID exists in my post above, similarly with my client_id

EDIT: actually apologies, I am using my CLIENT_ID as my product ID also. :man_facepalming:

Now, I am getting a invalid scope issue, but I will try solve that.

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#4

For the scope, make sure you are using the correct auth token as described here.

When sending the data via a JSON POST be sure to set the Content-Type to application/json. I think the default might be URL form encoded.

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#5

Ok I got this working using Basic Auth and the following JSON.

{
    "productIdOrSlug": ":productID",
    "client_id": "12345666blahblahblah",
    "email": "test@gmail.com",
    "no_password": "true",
    "response_type": "token"
}

However I am getting the following response, but when I check in my product the customer has actually been created.

{
    "error": "invalid_client",
    "error_description": "Missing parameters. \"username\" and \"password\" are required"
}
#6

@rickkas7

Is your most recent reply the answer to the above, should I be using a product bearer token to create shadow customers rather than the client id and secret?