Getting OperationResult when ResultUrl is not in response object? - azure-devops

I am turning to the community as I haven't found anything in the official documentation.
As the title says, I am having troubles fetching the operation result. I am creating an operation by calling the Project - Create REST endpoint. The HTTP call is responding with the operation reference, as the operation is successfully queued. While the operation is running (States NotSet, Queued, InProgress), I am polling the operation at an 300 ms interval. After several seconds, the operation results in a success state.
As the operation was successful, I would expect that the resultUrl property of the Operation is populated with the URL pointing to the created resource (in my case in the form of https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/projects/{projectId}?api-version=6.0). However, resultUrl is not part of the response of the GET call at all.
Is there anything I am missing or misinterpreting? Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

The problem is not clear in your question. If you create a new project, you know its name. The URL to projects is stable:
https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/projects/{projectNAME}?api-version=6.0
You can get ProjectState in the answer and any over information like the project URL (TeamProject).

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Azure Data Factory Webhook body problems

So I'm experiencing some issues in Azure Data Factory.
I have a standard pipeline where I'm trying to implement a webhook for later callbacks, but the body for the webhook post does not seem to be behaving.
(In advance: sorry for the image URLs -> I'm not reputable enough to post images)
So here is what I've typed into the "Body" of the Webhook service: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/3765/ApbiRN.jpg
Then I verify that the template looks correct:
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/5448/vN82Vp.jpg
And finally I debug the pipeline only to find this as output from the webhook: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/3697/AEDzOT.jpg
As you can see it's grabbing a {"Key":"Value"} from somewhere.
Now I've saved the pipeline; I've published the pipeline; I've restarted ADF.. Still.
So the first issue is that I'm not able to send the body that I want.
The second issue is that I'd like to parameterize the body (when this is cleared up):
{
"key1":"#{pipeline().parameters.param1}",
"key2":"#{pipeline().parameters.param2}",
"key3":"#{pipeline().parameters.param3}"
}
I've not been able to solve that last one either, so if any kind souls would be so kind.. much obliged!
Edit: In addition I've not been able to spot the "callBackUri" that the documentation promises: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-webhook-activity
Any insights into that issue as well?
I tried many times and finally succeeded.
In your case, you can use the expression as follow:
#json(concat(concat('{"key1":"',pipeline().parameters.param1,'",'),concat('"key2":"',pipeline().parameters.param2,'",'),concat('"key3":"',pipeline().parameters.param3,'"}')))
The result is as follow:
First, we need to concatenate the query string.
Then we need to use #json() to convert the string type to json type.

Specify Google Task ID on insert

I am working with Google Tasks, using the PHP library:
https://developers.google.com/tasks/v1/reference/tasks
I am trying to insert a task with a custom ID.
I found this topic:
Setting id to task using Google Task API returns 400 invalid value
which points to this topic:
Google tasks update error
They suggest to send the Task ID with the Task title. I think I have done that.
This is the code info from the Google API reference
$task = new Task();
$task->setTitle('New Task');
$task->setNotes('Please complete me');
$task->setDue(new TaskDateTime('2010-10-15T12:00:00.000Z'));
$result = $service->insertTasks('#default', $task);
echo $result->getId();
This is my code, I got setID() from the library itself.
$taskNew = new Google_Service_Tasks_Task();
$taskNew->setId('2013');
$taskNew->setTitle('Notify');
$taskNew->setDue(new TaskDateTime('2018-10-27T00:00:00.000Z'));
$results3 = $service->tasks->insert('.....', $taskNew);
I keep getting an error and it refuses to make the task.
Using this API tool:
https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/tasks/v1/tasks.tasks.insert
I can insert tasks successfully, so long as the system makes the ID. The Google Task API will insert the task, but assign its own ID.
If I specify a custom ID, then I get a 400 error "Invalid value".
I am making tasks to correspond to events saved in my program's database. I need to be able to find the task that matches a database event when I need to make changes to the due date or completed.
The reason I want to set my own ID, is so I can find the specific task and make changes.
I could add a new field to the database with the ID that google generates. But I would prefer to not have to change the database and the rest of the program as well.
Thanks so much for any help,
- Jon
Task Id is the read-only parameter.
I solved this question by using a prefix for the task`s Title.
For example: "[my_id] Task Title".

store and setRequest

I have a jobque mechanism in ZF.
The jobque simlpy stores the the function call (Class, Method and params) and later executes it as CLI daemon. The daemon works, however at places the application looks for information from the request object, and when called from the CLI these places fail, or get no info.
I would like to store the original request object together with the job and when the job is processed set the request object back as if the job was done by the originall request, somethin along the line of the following pseudo code:
$ser_request = serialize(Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance ()->getRequest ());
-->save to db
-->retrive from db
$ZCF= new Zend_Controller_Front;
$ZCF::getInstance ()->setRequest (unserialize($ser_request))
The aim is to store and replay the jobs later withouth having to change the rest of the application.
Any suggestions how to do that?
I am not sure if this works, but here's an idea. Try to implement _sleep and _wakeup magic methods for the request object. Haven't tried it out, but maybe it's at least a starting solution.

asp.net mvc azure "Error accessing the data store!"

I've started using the AspProviders code to store my session data in my table storage.
I'm sporadically getting the following error:
Description: Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpException' was thrown. INNER_EXCEPTION:Error accessing the data store! INNER_EXCEPTION:An error occurred while processing this request. INNER_EXCEPTION: ConditionNotMet The condition specified using HTTP conditional header(s) is not met. RequestId:0c4239cc-41fb-42c5-98c5-7e9cc22096af Time:2010-10-15T04:28:07.0726801Z
StackTrace:
System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.EndAcquireState(IAsyncResult ar)
System.Web.HttpApplication.AsyncEventExecutionStep.OnAsyncEventCompletion(IAsyncResult ar) INNER_EXCEPTION:
Microsoft.Samples.ServiceHosting.AspProviders.TableStorageSessionStateProvider.ReleaseItemExclusive(HttpContext context, String id, Object lockId) in \Azure\AspProviders\TableStorageSessionStateProvider.cs:line 484
System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.GetSessionStateItem()
System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.PollLockedSessionCallback(Object state) INNER_EXCEPTION:
Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.Tasks.Task1.get_Result()
Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.Tasks.Task1.ExecuteAndWait()
Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.TaskImplHelper.ExecuteImplWithRetry[T](Func`2 impl, RetryPolicy policy)
Microsoft.Samples.ServiceHosting.AspProviders.TableStorageSessionStateProvider.ReleaseItemExclusive(TableServiceContext svc, SessionRow session, Object lockId) in \Azure\AspProviders\TableStorageSessionStateProvider.cs:line 603
Microsoft.Samples.ServiceHosting.AspProviders.TableStorageSessionStateProvider.ReleaseItemExclusive(HttpContext context, String id, Object lockId) in \Azure\AspProviders\TableStorageSessionStateProvider.cs:line 480 INNER_EXCEPTION:
System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceContext.SaveResult.d__1e.MoveNext()
Anyone run into this? The only useful information I've found is this, which I'm hesitant to do:
If you want to bypass the validation, you can open TableStorageSessionStateProvider.cs, find ReleaseItemExclusive, and modify the code from:
svc.UpdateObject(session);
to:
svc.Detach(session);
svc.AttachTo("Sessions", session, "*");
svc.UpdateObject(session);
from here
Thanks!
So I decided to change this:
svc.UpdateObject(session);
svc.SaveChangesWithRetries();
to this:
try
{
svc.UpdateObject(session);
svc.SaveChangesWithRetries();
}
catch
{
svc.Detach(session);
svc.AttachTo("Sessions", session, "*");
svc.UpdateObject(session);
svc.SaveChangesWithRetries();
}
So, I'll see how that works...
I've encountered this problem as well and after some investigation it seems to happen more often when you have more than one instance and you try to make calls in rapid succession in the same session. (e.g. if you had an auto complete box and making ajax calls on each key press)
This occurs because when you try to access the session data, first of all the web server takes out a lock on that session. When the request is complete, it releases the lock. With the table service provider, it updates this lock status by updating a field in the table. What I think is happening is that Instance1 loads the session row, then Instance2 loads the session row, Instance1 saves down the updated lock status and when Instance2 attempts to save the lock status it gets an error because the object isn't in the same state as when it loaded it (the ETag doesn't match any more).
This is why the fix that you found will stop the error from occurring, because by specifying the "*" in the AttachTo, when Instance2 attempts to save the lock it will turn off ETag checking (and over write the changes made by Instance1).
In our situation we have altered the provider so that we can turn off session for certain paths (the ajax call that was giving us our problems didn't need access to session data, neither did the loading of images) which may be an option for you depending on what is causing your problem.
Unfortunately the TableStorageSessionStateProvider is part of the sample projects and so isn't (as far as I'm aware, but I'll happily be told otherwise) officially supported by Microsoft. It does have other issues, like the fact that it doesn't clean up it's session data once a session expires, so you will end up with lots of junk in the session table and blob container that you'll have to clean up some other way.

facebook connect api "Cannot use string offset as an array in" error

Please help! I have been grappling with this error for days and I cannot for the life of me figure it out. I am using facebook connect and fetching a "contact_email" attribute using their api method users_getInfo.
The issue is that when I execute this PHP file, i get this error: "Cannot use string offset as an array in...". This error specifically refers to this line of code: $firstName=$user_details[0]['contact_email'];
I'm thinking this is because the user_getInfo method is not returning any results... However, the most ridiculous part about all this is that, I can execute the code below several dozens of times in a row SUCCESSFULLY without the above error, BUT THEN randomly without changing ANY code at all, I will suddenly encounter this error, in which case it will begin to give me an error several dozens of times, and then AGAIN without any code change, start executing successfully again.
This odd behavior occurs regardless of the attribute i am fetching.. (contact_email, first_name, last_name, etc.). I am running php 5.2.11. Is there something I'm missing??
Please Help!
include_once 'site/fbconnect/config.php'; //has $api_key and $secret defined.
include_once 'site/facebook-platform/client/facebook.php';
global $api_key,$secret;
$fb=new Facebook($api_key,$secret);
$fb->require_login();
$fb_user=$fb->get_loggedin_user();
$user_details=$fb->api_client->users_getInfo($fb_user,array('last_name','first_name','contact_email'));
$email=$user_details[0]['contact_email'];
$firstName=$user_details[0]['first_name'];
$lastName=$user_details[0]['last_name'];
Using the facebook php client API I was also receiving that error but my error was related to checking if the users are friends using the friends_areFriends php method.
//$results_array = $facebook->api_client->friends_areFriends($fb_user, $selected_friend_uid);
//$answer = $results_array[0]['are_friends'];
I would get this error when I assigned the $result, "Cannot use string offset as an array" and aparently the friends_areFriends method above was failing alot. My solution was to create a for loop that ran that code and then check $answer to see if it was an array using php method is_array() and executing the method call again if it wasn't. My loop was for 10 tries before just letting it fail. In the end, this check was severely degrating the performance of my facebook application. Instead, I removed the friends_areFriends api call alltogather and my facebook app performance was nice and fast again.
You could probably implement a similar feature allowing the method to retry itself if the result is not an array. The problem I think is on facebook's side, sometimes they are flooded and the requests do not complete successfully. I caution you not to retry more than 5 tries though because if you do a forever loop, rest assured they will ban you from the using the Facebook API for flooding it, so be careful.