Submitting an Assignment via API

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Hi - I'm getting a 422 Unprocessable Entity error when I try to test this API call (I'm using Advanced REST Client) :

https://class.yciw.net/api/v1/courses/114/assignments/3784/submissions?as_user_id=2398&submission[submission_type]=online_url&submission[url]=www.google.com

I'm using my admin access code in the header. Trying to submit this on behalf of student "2398."

Is it formatted incorrectly? 

Thanks

Matt

James

matt5834,

I just tried this using ARC and it worked fine for me. It generates a "201 Created" response code.

I took your URL and my URL and pasted them next to each other and then put your IDs into my URL and I didn't see any differences, so I think you have the syntax correct.

Here are some things to look at.

• Make sure you're using POST and not GET or PUT
• Make sure you're using the Canvas User ID and not a SIS User ID. If you're using a SIS User ID, you need as_user_id=sis_user_id:2398. I verified that it worked both ways
• Try GET /v1/courses/114/assignments/3784/submissions to make sure that you have the right course and assignment.
• Make sure the assignment can still be submitted. I don't think that's the reason, but if I'm throwing out ideas ..

Finally, this is not the reason, but www.google.com is not a URL. The URL includes the protocol, so https://www.google.com would be the correct way. Browsers often work if you type it into the location bar that way, but if you include it as a link on a web page, it probably (Apache does this by default, not sure about other webservers) gets turned into a relative link because it doesn't have the protocol and then you get a notice that it can't find the page www.google.com on the server. However, I tested it with www.google.com and Canvas took it -- but it also added http and not https to it. Still, it would be better to actually submit a URL.