Creating Contact in xero from java code gives Bad Request

Question

Below are logs which i got the error while creating contact in xero as i want to create multiple contact in xero i writing the api but i got the below error if i send the same request in postman it is working properly.

<pre>com.xero.api.XeroApiException: Bad Request com.xero.api.XeroApiExceptionHandler.execute(XeroApiExceptionHandler.java:27) com.xero.api.client.AccountingApi.createContact(AccountingApi.java:912) in.techchefs.anyspace.common.service.impl.XeroServiceImpl.addContactToXero(XeroServiceImpl.java:274) Below are code for calling the Contact API

public Contact addContactToXero(User user, String currencyCode) throws IOException {
        logger.info("inside xeroservise User addContactToXero---->>"+currencyCode);
        ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
        accountingApi = AccountingApi.getInstance(client);

        Contact contact = new Contact();
        contact.setIsCustomer(true);
        contact.setIsSupplier(true);
        String businessName = user.getFirstName() + " " + user.getLastName() + " " + user.getId();

        if (user.getBusinessInfo() != null && user.getBusinessInfo().getName() != null) {
            businessName = user.getBusinessInfo().getName();
        }
        contact.setName(businessName);
        contact.setFirstName(user.getFirstName());
        contact.setLastName(user.getLastName());
        contact.setContactNumber(user.getPhone());
        contact.setEmailAddress(user.getEmail());


        List<Address> arrayOfAddress = new ArrayList<Address>();

        Set<UserAddress> userAddresses = user.getAddress();
        for (Iterator iterator = userAddresses.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
            UserAddress userAddress = (UserAddress) iterator.next();

            Address address = new Address();

            address.setAddressLine1(userAddress.getStreet());
            address.setAddressLine2(userAddress.getSuburb());
            address.setAddressType(userAddress.getAddressType() == 1 ? AddressTypeEnum.DELIVERY : AddressTypeEnum.POBOX);
            address.setRegion(userAddress.getState());
            address.setPostalCode(userAddress.getPostalCode());
            address.setCountry(userAddress.getCountry() == null ? "" : userAddress.getCountry().getTitle());

            arrayOfAddress.add(address);
        }

        contact.setAddresses(arrayOfAddress);
        contact.setContactStatus(ContactStatusEnum.ACTIVE);
        logger.info("addContactToXero by USer contact--->>"+contact);
        String accessToken=getAccessToken(currencyCode);
        logger.info("addContactToXero by USer accessToken--->>"+accessToken);
        XeroTokenStorage token=tokenStorageService.getByCurrencode(currencyCode);
        logger.info("addContactToXero by USer token.getTenantId()--->>"+token.getTenantId());
        Contacts contatcsAdded = accountingApi.createContact(accessToken,token.getTenantId(),contact);
        List<Contact> contatcsAddedList = contatcsAdded.getContacts();

        return contatcsAddedList.get(0);
        //return contatcsAdded;
    }

I give the logger for contact

class Contact {
    contactID: null
    contactNumber: 6666
    accountNumber: null
    contactStatus: ACTIVE
    name: Marc Verano 1
    firstName: Marc
    lastName: Verano
    emailAddress: info@anyspaces.com
    skypeUserName: null
    contactPersons: []
    bankAccountDetails: null
    taxNumber: null
    accountsReceivableTaxType: null
    accountsPayableTaxType: null
    addresses: []
    phones: []
    isSupplier: true
    isCustomer: true
    defaultCurrency: null
    xeroNetworkKey: null
    salesDefaultAccountCode: null
    purchasesDefaultAccountCode: null
    salesTrackingCategories: []
    purchasesTrackingCategories: []
    trackingCategoryName: null
    trackingCategoryOption: null
    paymentTerms: null
    updatedDateUTC: null    
    contactGroups: []
    website: null
    brandingTheme: null
    batchPayments: null
    discount: null
    balances: null
    attachments: []
    hasAttachments: null
    validationErrors: []
    hasValidationErrors: null
}

i got the error from java is bad request and same request if i send through postman it is working. Pls tell me some solution on that

"bad request" normally includes any validation errors in the response header. — droopsnoot, May 22 '20 at 17:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '20 at 21:25

There is a clue in your question - "if I send the same request through postman it is working" - contact name and number need to be unique, so check that you are providing unique values for these fields.

However as droopsnoot mentioned in a comment, any validation errors will be returned from the Xero API, so interrogate the response and you will probably find the reason it is occurring.

Creating Contact in xero from java code gives Bad Request

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