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Create new Dropbox user using Powershell

Code

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Function New-DropBoxUser
{
[CmdletBinding()]Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true,Position=0)] 
[string]$FullName)

# Split name into username #    $FirstName, $LastName = $FullName.split(' ')    $UserName = ($FirstName[0]+$LastName).toLower()    $email = "$UserName@mycomp.com"

$Body = @{
"new_members" = @(@{  
"member_email" = $email;
"member_given_name" = $FirstName;                        
"member_surname" = $LastName;
"send_welcome_email" = "true";
"role" =  @{
".tag" = "member_only"
}
})
}

Write-Host ''
Write-Host 'Creating DropBox User...' `
    -ForegroundColor 'Yellow' `
-BackgroundColor 'Black'$AuthToken = 
'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'$token = "Bearer $AuthToken" 





$response=Invoke-RestMethod `
    -Method Post `
-Uri "https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/team/members/add" `
    -Headers @{ Authorization = $token } `
-ContentType "application/json; charset=utf-8" `
    -Body (ConvertTo-Json $Body)

}

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Output:

Invoke-RestMethod : The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.

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Marcusyoung7962

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AlokSan

The code wasn't pasted properly, so i can reckon. Any idea what is the issue with the code?

AlokSan

Better, refer to Stack-Overflow - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52029373/unable-to-get-past-the-400-error
I have posted there too.

AlokSan

Update

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Found the error, the error is for two lines within the $Body

1. "send_welcome_email"="true";

Error: Error in call to API function "team/members/add": request body: new_members.send_welcome_email: u'true' is not a valid boolean

2. "role" = @{".tag" = "member_only"}

Error: Error in call to API function "team/members/add": request body: new_members.role: unknown tag 'System.Collections.Hashtable'

Hope now someone can help with this, any idea?

Greg-DB

It looks like you already got help with this on StackOverflow. As you found, whenever an API call fails, you should check the response body itself for a more detailed message.

In this case, the error indicated that there were unexpected values in the request. Specifically, you were passing in incorrect types for the "send_welcome_email" and "role" parameters.