REST API - POST calls not working from Postman

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I am trying the REST API calls using the Postman API collection using my sandbox account, and am referring to the following link:

I am able to successfully query data, using various GETs (get app, list users, get user, etc)

However, I am not getting the expected output when I use the APIs that POSTs - create/delete/update. A few examples:

  • Assign User to a App returns 200 response, and the body contains existing users (assigned from the Dev Console) but does not contain the new user
  • Create User will return a 200 OK and list of all users, and no new user is actually created

Not sure if I am missing something, looks like a permission issue, but the response does not show any error, so its very confusing and am getting nowhere. Thanks for your time and greatly appreciate any inputs, thank you

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Hi,
I am having the same issue. Did you ever find a fix?
Thanks!

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Hi @hiq-mflores

Based on @vasan.jagannathan, the issue might be that the resources are paginated and, due to this, only a few list of users are displayed.

Can you please check under Response Headers tab if you have a pagination link, as mentioned here? Alternatively, you can use list users with a filter, as follows:

  'https://yourOktaOrg.okta.com/api/v1/users?filter=profile.login%20eq%20%22user@domain.com%22' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: SSWS API_TOKEN_HERE' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
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HI,
Im having the exact same issue.
200 response, but no actual update with a POST.
@dragos to clarify- the user isnt getting assigned to the app, its not just the fact that they dont get returned in the response…
If anyone figures it out, would be most appreciated

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Hi @hoshear

Can you please open a support case with us through an email to support@okta.com in order to have this further investigated by one of our Technical Support Engineers?

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Thanks for the help @dragos
My issue was that the URL variable being sent wasn’t https, so it got read as a GET.
After adding that to the request it worked perfectly!

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