[rt-users] Creating links with the REST interface

[Alessandro Di Bella]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the REST interface to create link two tickets
without any success.
Accordingly to the documentation, it should be enough to POST to
http://myserver/REST/1.0/ticket/<ticket-id>/links but it doesn't seem
to work.

If I issue the POST request http://rt/REST/1.0/ticket/91/links with
body content=MemberOf%3A+90, I get the reply:

RT/4.0.5 409 Syntax Error

# MemberOf: Can't link to a deleted ticket

id:
DependsOn:
DependedOnBy:
RefersTo:
ReferredToBy:
Members:
MemberOf: 90

Both tickets 90 and 91 are NOT in state deleted and same thing happens
with any other key (DependsOn, Members, etc.).  I don't understand the
reason for error message.

I also put a sniffer in place to check what the command line tools
sends to the server and it turns out that it's nothing like the API
specification:


POST /REST/1.0/ticket/link HTTP/1.1
TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3
Connection: TE, close
Host: rt:9980
User-Agent: RT/3.0b
Content-Length: 379
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=xYzZY

--xYzZY
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="		"

dependson
--xYzZY
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="to"

76
--xYzZY
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="del"

0
--xYzZY
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="id"

77
--xYzZY
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="user"

root
--xYzZY
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="pass"

password
--xYzZY--

The multipart request works but is it an altenative to the documented
one or is is the documentation wrong?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Alessandro