using API to create contacts, problems with utf-8 characters

[robbrandt]

I am using the API to create new contacts from another external database.  I am using v4.5 from git.

I have my create working for the most part, but it is failing on multibyte characters. I have tried it with both urlencoded values and unencoded. I have tried various sorts of Content Types, although I see docs verifying that values passed as an array should be treated as multipart/form-data.  When I try the "create", the returned message is:

{"is_error":1,"0":"error_message","1":"Unable to decode supplied JSON."}

Everything works great for non-multibyte values.

 Here's my code:

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$query = 'http://localhost/civicrmlocal/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/rest.php"
           $curl = curl_init($query);
           
           $curl_post_data = array(
                   'entity' => 'Contact',
                   'action' => 'create',
                   'json' => '{
           "sequential":1,"contact_type":"Individual","user_unique_id":"'.$values[$newid]['openid_name'].'","first_name":"'.$first.'","last_name":"'.$last.'","middle_name":"'.$middle.'","nick_name":"'.$nick.'","display_name":"'.$values[$newid]['user_name'].'","email":"'.$values[$newid]['user_email'].'"}',
                   'api_key' => 'abunchofcharacters',
                   'key' => 'anotherbunchofchracters'
           );
           curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
           curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
           curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curl_post_data);
           curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array (
                "Content-Type: multipart/form-data; charset=utf-8"
           ));
           $curl_response = curl_exec($curl);
           curl_close($curl);

[sushant]

IMO there  may be  issue with JSON value your sending. You can try with JSON value like  below

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'[{ "sequential":1,"contact_type":"Individual","user_unique_id":"'.$values[$newid]['openid_name'].'","first_name":"'.$first.'","last_name":"'.$last.'","middle_name":"'.$middle.'","nick_name":"'.$nick.'","display_name":"'.$values[$newid]['user_name'].'","email":"'.$values[$newid]['user_email'].'"}]'

Hth

[robbrandt]

Thanks.  I got it working.  It was really hard to see what difference you specified in your version and I'm not sure this is what you meant, but there was a linefeed in mine after the opening { that was causing the problem.  Prior to that, the only difference I saw in yours was that the json was enclosed in square brackets.  I tried that too but it didn't help.

[sushant]

That's good you got it working, also good way to validate your JSON is with http://jsonlint.com/