Can't correctly setup the rest.json configuration file [HELP]

[IhorYednak]

Can't correctly setup the rest.json configuration file [HELP]

[imbeacon]

Hi @IhorYednak,

Thank you for your interest in Thingsboard IoT Gateway, in order to use your config you can try to send the following request:

endpoint - http://92.111.176.157:5000/my_devices
method - POST
data:

{
    "sensorName": "Ihor's Test",
    "sensorType": "default",
    "sensorModel": "Value1",
    "certificateNumber": "Value2"
}

Also you can modify the configuration like the following to process your request, but you still need to choose some endpoint to send, for example - "/my_endpoint" and send request to http://92.111.176.157:5000/my_endpoint , mapping configuration for this case will be the following:

...
    {
      "endpoint": "/my_endpoint",
      "HTTPMethods": [
        "POST"
      ],
      "security": {
        "type": "anonymous"
      },
      "converter": {
        "type": "json",
        "deviceNameExpression": "${name}",
        "deviceTypeExpression": "default",
        "attributes": [
          {
            "type": "string",
            "key": "firstParameter",
            "value": "${parameterOne}"
          }
        ],
        "timeseries": [
          {
            "type": "string",
            "key": "secondParameter",
            "value": "${parameterTwo}"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
...

To get more information about REST and other connector you can use our official documentation.

[IhorYednak]

Thank you for your response @imbeacon this is very useful, I corrected my config file, so now it looks like this:

`"host": "127.0.0.1",
  "port": "5000",
  "SSL": false,
  "mapping": [
    {
      "endpoint": "/my_endpoint",
      "HTTPMethods": [
        "POST"
      ],
      "security": {
        "type": "anonymous"
      },
      "converter": {
        "type": "json",
        "deviceNameExpression": "${name}",
        "deviceTypeExpression": "default",
        "attributes": [
          {
            "type": "string",
            "key": "firstParameter",
            "value": "${parameterOne}"
          }
        ],
        "timeseries": [
          {
            "type": "string",
            "key": "secondParameter",
            "value": "${parameterTwo}"
          }
        ]
      }
    },`

But still I got error in Postman and can't process the request

Maybe there's something to do with the URL ip address?

[imbeacon]

Could you check is port opened on your machine and expects connection?

sudo netstat -tlpn | grep 5000

[IhorYednak]

@imbeacon
This is what I got

[IhorYednak]

It should be good I think

[imbeacon]

Ok, it looks like the request cannot arrive to the server, please try to run the following command from the server:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
    "sensorName": "Ihor'\''s Test",
    "sensorType": "default",
    "sensorModel": "Value1",
    "certificateNumber": "Value2"
}' http://127.0.0.1:5000/my_devices

and from external machine:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
    "sensorName": "Ihor'\''s Test",
    "sensorType": "default",
    "sensorModel": "Value1",
    "certificateNumber": "Value2"
}' http://92.111.176.157:5000/my_devices

If first arrives - the issue may be in firewall or network, for example with port forwarding.

[IhorYednak]

Thank you @imbeacon, the issue is solved, I was able to get the data over it by typing the address of the VM itlsef in the rest.json file instead of 127.0.0.1 and after that post data from external machine.
so 5 IOT starts of 5 😄