Create Task - API Example

Self-Hosted | v5
1

Hello,

I recently migrated from InvoicePlane to InvoiceNinja v5, and I would like to clarify a question about the API.

I’m running a test trying to create a task with curl with the following code:

#!/bin/bash

curl --request POST
–url https://host.domain.com/api/v1/tasks
–header ‘X-Api-Token: UZsdfdsfdfdfsIan32N3IB2qYJKe’
–header ‘X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest’
–data ‘{ “client_id”: “23”, “user_id”: “1” }’

The task is created successfully, but with the client_id and user_id fields blank.

I tried here on the forum and in the API documentation to look for information on how to create a task for a specific client, but without success.

Could someone with more experience please help me?

Thank you

2

Hi.

Welcome!

You need to pass the hashed id’s in the API request (ie QBeXRNzgby). The web app also uses the API, I suggest using the network tab in the browser console to see sample API requests.

3

Hello,

Thank you for your reply!

I was able to get the user code through the developer tools in the browser, I tried different ways like sending the data through a .json file, but the result was the same.

I tried with these commands:

curl --request GET
–url https://host.domain.com/api/v1/tasks/W4QbYy0bzq/edit
–header ‘X-Api-Token: UZeoChUB8sdfsHZUrKO5gZaqIan32N3IB2qYJKe’
–header ‘X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest’
–data ‘{ “client_id”: “7N1aMAaWmp” }’

I used the API documentation as an example, do you have any other ideas on how I can debug this issue?

Thank you!

4

The command above is incorrect, you can’t use a GET request to edit the record.

5

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

Without GET I get the following error:

{“message”:“Method not supported for this route”}

But I managed to solve the problem as follows:

First I created a task, and after getting the task ID, I was able to edit the data with the following command:

curl --header ‘X-Api-Token: UZeoChUB8aan32N3IB2qYJKe’ --header ‘X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest’ --request PUT --url https://hosting.domain.com/api/v1/tasks/W4QbYy0bzq?client_id=“7N1aMAaWmp”&description=yyy

I would like to create a task directly without having to edit, but this was the best way I found.

Anyway, I appreciate your help!

6

PUT can be used to edit, to create you want to send a POST request to /tasks

7

Hello,

Thank you for your help, this the final conclusion:

description=“Message…”
url=“https://hosting.domain.com/api/v1/tasks”
x_api_token=“UZeoChUB8KO5gZaqIan32N3IB2qYJKe”
client_d $1

task_id=curl --silent --request POST \ --url $url \ --header "X-Api-Token: $x_api_token" \ --header 'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' |jq -r '.data.id'

curl --silent --header “X-Api-Token: $x_api_token”
–header ‘X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest’
–request PUT --url “$url/$task_id?client_id=$1&description=$description”

8

@minimediale

Have you checked the API documentation?

https://api-docs.invoicing.co/#tag/tasks/POST/api/v1/tasks

curl -X PUT 'http://ninja.test:8000/api/v1/tasks/JxboV2jagw' \
-H "X-API-TOKEN:company-token-test" \
-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-d '{"client-id":"xxxx"}' \
-H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" \
-H "X-API-SECRET:password";
9

yes,

I checked the documentation, but unfortunately it didn’t work that way. However, the way I described above worked.

Thank you