Defect #15874: REST API answers with error 500 when trying to create new user - Redmine

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Defect #15874

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REST API answers with error 500 when trying to create new user

Added by Andrey Tatarnikov over 10 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

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Category:

REST API

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Resolution:

Invalid

Affected version:

2.3.3

Description

I have to create new Redmine users from external source, so I want to use REST API.
First, I've created new user - `Automatics` with admin rights. After that I tried to call API from Chrome extension - Postman (HTTP request simulator).

Here is my request:
URL: http://redmine.dev.domain.ru/users.json?key=45fcdf639621f16020dac48f10cee94c545dfc69
Body:

{
    "user": {
        "login": "jplang",
        "firstname": "Jean-Philippe",
        "lastname": "Lang",
        "mail": "jp_lang@yahoo.fr",
        "password": "secret" 
    }
}

And API answer is:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
    <title>Redmine 500 error</title>
    <style>
body{
font-family: Trebuchet MS,Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;
color:#303030;
margin:10px;
}
h1{
font-size:1.5em;
}
p{
font-size:0.8em;
}
</style>
    <body>
        <h1>Internal error</h1>
        <p>An error occurred on the page you were trying to access.
            <br />
  If you continue to experience problems please contact your Redmine administrator for assistance.
        </p>
        <p>If you are the Redmine administrator, check your log files for details about the error.</p>
        <p>
            <a href="javascript:history.back()">Back</a>
        </p>
    </body>
</html>

I've enabled debug-level logging for Redmine, and log show this:

Started POST "/users.json?key=45fcdf639621f16020dac48f10cee94c545dfc69" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-01-15 16:56:10 +0400
Processing by UsersController#create as JSON
  Parameters: {"key"=>"45fcdf639621f16020dac48f10cee94c545dfc69"}
   (0.1ms)  SELECT MAX(`settings`.`updated_on`) AS max_id FROM `settings`
  Token Load (0.1ms)  SELECT `tokens`.* FROM `tokens` WHERE `tokens`.`action` = 'api' AND `tokens`.`value` = '45fcdf639621f16020dac48f10cee94c545dfc69' LIMIT 1
  User Load (0.1ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`type` IN ('User', 'AnonymousUser') AND `users`.`id` = 109 LIMIT 1
  Current user: Automatics (id=109)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 4ms

NoMethodError (undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass):
  app/controllers/users_controller.rb:89:in `create'

What's wrong and could I fix it somehow?

This is my environments:

Environment:
  Redmine version                2.3.3.stable
  Ruby version                   1.9.3-p194 (2012-04-20) [x86_64-linux]
  Rails version                  3.2.13
  Environment                    production
  Database adapter               Mysql2
Redmine plugins:
  redmine_anonymous_watchers     0.1.0
  redmine_git_hosting            0.6.2
  redmine_plugin_views_revisions 0.0.1