Image URL related error creating category via REST API

  • Resolved ciberg

    (@ciberg)


    4 years ago

    Hi,

    I am having a problem trying to use the API to create a Product Category with an image.
    I am using the Ruby gem but I have the same problem using a standard call via Postman.

    This is what I am sending in the request, if I send it without image it works fine but with an image I get “woocommerce_api_product_category_image_upload_error – Error getting remote image”

    
{
    "product_category":
    {

                "name": "Categoria uma2", 
                "slug": "Categoriauma2", 
                "description": "nil", 
                "image": 
                    {
                        "src": "https://same_server_as_wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2a.jpg"
                    }
    }
}

    It is a test server and no other plugins are installed, the image is accessible in the WP server.
    I debugged WP and it is not a connection problem, as the URL is never really used, this is the error:
    ltrim() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /var/www/html/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 4313

    This corresponds to the function esc_url that receives the URL and escapes it, the function expects the URL to be a string but it is receiving an array instead.
    I examined the array and it is part of the request:
    a:1:{s:3:”src”;s:71:”https://wordpress.stable.wrightia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2a.jpg”;}

    Backtracing the call of the esc_url function, I see it is called by WP_Scripts, but when I get to this point there is nothing I can do on my side to solve this, as I do not want to edit WP or WC files.

    What am I missing here? The request is correct and according to the documentation and I have both WP and WC updated (please remind that without image the creation works).

    I am driving nuts as I am looking for a solution for days, can someone please shed a light on this.

    
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    • This topic was modified 4 years ago by ciberg.
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  • Plugin Support Stuart Duff – a11n

    (@stuartduff)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hey @ciberg,

    What I’d initally suggest is using the Postman APP to test out your REST API calls to see if it provides any further information. WooCommerce has some information on testing API calls using the Postman APP and I’ve referenced that for you below you.

    https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/wiki/Getting-started-with-the-REST-API

    Sometimes Postman App will reveal some error messages WordPress + WooCommerce would not.

    Thread Starter ciberg

    (@ciberg)

    Hi, using Postman I get exactly the same error:

    {
    "errors": [
        {
            "code": "woocommerce_api_product_category_image_upload_error",
            "message": "Erro ao obter imagem remota . Erro: O URL fornecido é inválido."
        }
    ]
}

    note: the message is in Portuguese and translates as “Error getting remote image – invalid URL”

    The behaviour is the same with the ruby gem and with Postman.
    The request I use is on the first post.

    Please check the image to see if I am doing something wrong.
    Postman print

    jessepearson

    (@jessepearson)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    @ciberg It seems like this is an issue with the server being able to get the image for some reason. It may be timing out, or the url for the image is not accessible for some other reason? Are you able to ssh into the server to try to ping the url for the image to see if there’s a response? Maybe a small script on the server that tries to read the url could be another test.

    I just tested the API myself without any issues:


    Link to image: https://d.pr/i/QTQ6cZ

    This is my request:

    
{
  "name": "API Test",
  "image": 
    {
      "src": "https://local.test/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/tron-2.jpg"
    }
}

    Any my response:

    
{
    "id": 298,
    "name": "API Test",
    "slug": "api-test",
    "parent": 0,
    "description": "",
    "display": "default",
    "image": {
        "id": 135486,
        "date_created": "2020-10-08T08:59:08",
        "date_created_gmt": "2020-10-08T11:59:08",
        "date_modified": "2020-10-08T08:59:08",
        "date_modified_gmt": "2020-10-08T11:59:08",
        "src": "https://local.test/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/tron-2-1.jpg",
        "name": "tron-2-1.jpg",
        "alt": ""
    },
    "menu_order": 0,
    "count": 0,
    "_links": {
        "self": [
            {
                "href": "https://local.test/wp-json/wc/v3/products/categories/298"
            }
        ],
        "collection": [
            {
                "href": "https://local.test/wp-json/wc/v3/products/categories"
            }
        ]
    }
}

    And the category in the admin:


    Link to image: https://d.pr/i/8mijqm

    Thread Starter ciberg

    (@ciberg)

    @jessepearson You are a life saver.
    The problem was in the POST URL, I was using:
    /wc-api/v3/products/categories

    And it worked fine with without images but failed with image.

    Seeing your example I changed to /wp-json/wc/v3/products/categories and it worked with the image.

    Thank you!

    • This reply was modified 4 years ago by ciberg. Reason: clarify text
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