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WS Template

by Jean Poole - Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 2:22 AM

I've followed and checked the instructions for the set up and it all seems very straightforward, but I don't get the Hello, user message, I get;

Array
(
    [faultCode] => 0
    [faultString] => You cannot view the profile of this user
)

The token is correct

The test user is assigned at System (and now evrey other) context.

I've checked all setting many times.

Also, I tried to acces the client file directly from the server and I get:

/local/wstemplate/client/client.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory
/local/wstemplate/client/client.php: line 2: //: is a directory
/local/wstemplate/client/client.php: line 3: //: is a directory
/local/wstemplate/client/client.php: line 4: //: is a directory
/local/wstemplate/client/client.php: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `at'
/local/wstemplate/client/client.php: line 5: `// (at your option) any later version.'

I don't know where to go next with this. It should be easy...

PS I looked in the tracker and saw some references to Zend. I'm not sure what that is but it's on our server, could that be the problem?

Re: WS Template

by Jean Poole - Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 3:19 AM

I've just noticed this in the logs for the site:

WS Test User webservice moodle_zend_xmlrpc_server 1xx.xxx.xxx.xxx ( which is the correct server IP)

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Re: WS Template

by Jérôme Mouneyrac - Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 11:10 AM

Hi Jean, "You cannot view the profile of this user" seems to be an error returned by the web service function. It's most likely that the function you are calling request permission that your user doesn't have. To confirm do the same call with an admin user, if it works, the issue is with your user permission. Cheers, Jerome

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Re: WS Template

by Jean Poole - Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 5:02 AM

Thanks! That was it! It worked with Admin.

Just a quick note that the instructions all say that the user only needs the specific service capability. I enabled edit and view profile capabilities but it still didnt work for my WS account. What permissions would be needed?

Thanks for your help!!

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Re: WS Template

by Jérôme Mouneyrac - Friday, April 20, 2012, 11:14 AM

Hi Jean,
permissions are a difficult task for the Moodle administrator. What you have to think as admin is: can this user do in the front end what he tries to do with the web service. if he can't then the user doesn't have the right capability, so it will not work for the web service too.

What web service function are you using by the way? To see user profiles try to use the function that return course participants. Most of the time users are not allowed to see any user profiles on system context, they are just allowed to see the participant profiles of the course where they are enrolled.

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