[SalesForce] Retrieving User from Salesforce failing with 411 error

I'm attempting to retrieve a custom object record by one of it's unique fields using the built in api. For this specific call, my request is is:

path: `/services/data/v43.0/sobjects/YTPStudent__c/drupalId__c/39111`
method: GET
headers:
  Authorization: 8248...3483
  Content-Type: application/json

When I do this on Postman, it works fine. I get the proper response. However, when I make the exact same call via Drupal., it's failing with this html:

And the response body is this:

Code: 411
Error: length required

Is the 411 a false error? It doesn't make much sense why it works for one platform but not another….

Best Answer

Thank You for answered your own question. It works perfectly!

Turns out, this occurred because Salesforce freaks out and gives a falsy error when Content-Length is provided in a GET request. Drupal was automatically adding Content-Length to a request if data was sent (not sure how data got sent in the request). So, on Salesforce's API, if you provide Content-Length in the headers on a GET request, it will throw a 411: Content-Length Required error. Nicely done Salesforce – BlondeSwan Jan 17 '20 at 1:00

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Relative duplicate of overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37161453/getting-invalid-uri-services-data-v36-0-queryq-select20id2c20name20fro

That said, the answer from Santosh Kumar does seem to apply here due to the following issue with the jsforce library: https://github.com/jsforce/jsforce/issues/188

Per Santosh's answer in stackoverflow:

Make sure you add two extra lines of code in the node_modules of jsforce's connection.js javascript.:

this.signedRequest = options.signedRequest && parseSignedRequest(options.signedRequest);
  if (this.signedRequest) {
    this.accessToken = this.signedRequest.client.oauthToken;
  ==>  this.version = this.signedRequest.context.environment.version.api || defaults.version;
  ==>  this.instanceUrl = this.signedRequest.client.instanceUrl || this.instanceUrl;
  }

[SalesForce] Salesforce Standard API – Content Version

The way you are following can insert only one record. In order to create record in bulk using REST API, you need to use Composite Tree resource- Tree resource can be used to create nested records, you can also create multiple, unrelated records of the same type.

So endpoint would be: https://SandboxName.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v43.0/composite/tree/ContentVersion

Request Body:

{"records" :[
 {
  "attributes" : {"type" : "ContentVersion", "referenceId" : "ref1"},
  "VersionData":"/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAYABADn/2Q==",
  "PathOnClient":"Array1.jpg",
  "Description":"Array1"
 },

 {
  "attributes" : {"type" : "ContentVersion", "referenceId" : "ref2"},
  "VersionData":"/9j/4AAQSkZJRgh25==",
  "PathOnClient":"Array2.jpg",
  "Description":"ARRAy2"
 }
]
}

P.S: In each row you would need to pass a reference id for each record as shown above.

SOURCE ARTICLE: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/dome_composite_sobject_tree_flat.htm

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