I have a Blazor Webassembly project with a controller method as follows:
[HttpGet]
public async Task<List<string>> GetStatesForProfile()
{
IConfigurationSection statesSection = configuration.GetSection("SiteSettings:States");
var sections = statesSection.GetChildren();
var states = statesSection.GetChildren().Select(s => s.Key).ToList<string>();
return states;
}
The razor page calls this method:
private async Task<bool> GetStatesModel()
{
try
{
States = await http.GetJsonAsync<List<string>>("api/account/getstatesforprofile");
...
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine($"Exception: {ex.Message}, Inner: {ex.InnerException.Message}");
}
I get this Exception:
Exception: '<' is an invalid start of a value.
I read these values from appsettings.json file, And there is no '<' in values.
{
"SiteSettings": {
"States": {
"New York": ["NYC"],
"California": ["Los Angeles", "San Francisco"]
}
}
Also I put a breakpoint in the controller method and it doesn't hit.
What is this error? Is it from parsing json? and how to resolve this?
I had a very similar problem.
In the end it turned out that my browser had cached the HTML error page (I guess I had some problems with the code when I first tried it). And no matter how I tried fixing the code I still only got the error from cache. Clearing my cache also cleared the problem.
It happens when you're trying to access an API that doesn't exist. You have to check your API project connectionstring under AppSettings and make sure it's correct and running. If it's a Blazor project, you can set it as your default project, execute and see if you get a json response.
Most probably the response you are receiving is html instead of actual JSON format for the endpoint you are requesting. Please check that.
An as HTML usually starts with <html> tag, the JSON validator fails on the very first character.
You should also clear any cache, that might be interfering with the returned data. (this has helped people resolve this same issue)
I know this is an old question, but it's one of the top results when Googling the error.
I've just spent more time than I care to admit to tracking down this error. I had a straightforward Blazor hosted app, basically unchanged from the template. It worked just fine when run locally, but when published to my web host API calls failed. I finally figured out that the problem was that I was running the publish from the Client project. When I changed to the Server project it worked properly.
Hopefully my long frustration and slight stupidity will save someone else making a similar mistake.
Seems like your api is not not accessible and its returning error HTML page by default.
You can try below solution:-
I think you are using httpclient to get data to blazor application.
If you have separate projects in solution for blazor and web api,
currently your startup application may set to run blazor project only.
Change startup projects to multiple (blazor and web api app) and give httpClient url in startup of blazor application, as webApi application url, that may solve your issue.
This error indicates a mismatch of the project targeting framework version and installed runtime on the machine. So make sure that the target framework for your project matches an installed runtime - this could be verified by multiple means; one of them is to check out the Individual Components tab of the Visual Studio Installer and lookup the target version.
E.g., there is the TargetFramework attribute in the proj file:
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework>
</PropertyGroup>
Then launch the Visual Studio Installer, click Modify, and visit the Individual Components tab:
Install the missing runtime (.NET 5 Runtime in this case) and you're good to go.
I got the same error. Red herring. use your browser or postman to check your api endpoint is returning the json data and not some HTML. In my case my "api/companytypes" had a typo.
private CompanyType[] companytypesarray;
private List<CompanyType> CompanyTypeList;
private List<CompanyType> CompanyTypeList2;
public async Task<bool> LoadCompanyTypes()
{
//this works
CompanyTypeList = await Http.GetFromJsonAsync<List<CompanyType>>("api/companytype");
//this also works reading the json into an array first
companytypesarray = await Http.GetFromJsonAsync<CompanyType[]>("api/companytype");
CompanyTypeList2 = companytypesarray.ToList();
return true;
}
I know this is an old question, but I had the same problem. It took some searching, but I realized that the return data was in XML instead of JSON.
I'm assuming your "http" variable is of type HttpClient, so here's what I found worked for me.
By setting the "Accept" header to allow only JSON, you avoid a miscommunication between your app and the remote server.
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Accept", "application/json");
States = await http.GetJsonAsync<List<string>>("api/account/getstatesforprofile");
I had the same issue when passing in an empty string to a controller method. Creating a second controller method that doesn't accept any input variables, and just passing an empty string to the first method helped to fix my problem.
[HttpGet]
[ActionName("GetStuff")]
public async Task<IEnumerable<MyModel>> GetStuff()
{
return await GetStuff("");
}
[HttpGet("{search}")]
[ActionName("GetStuff")]
public async Task<IEnumerable<MyModel>> GetStuff(string search)
{
...
}
Versions of package
Try to update your packages to old or new version. In my case, system.net.http.json is updated from 6.0 to 5.0
Likely you are using an Asp.NetCore hosted WASM application. By default the client's App.razor has something similar to:
<CascadingAuthenticationState>
<Router AppAssembly="#typeof(Program).Assembly">
<Found Context="routeData">
<AuthorizeRouteView DefaultLayout="#typeof(MainLayout)"
RouteData="#routeData">
<NotAuthorized>
<RedirectToLogin />
</NotAuthorized>
<Authorizing>
<Loading Caption="Authorizing..."></Loading>
</Authorizing>
</AuthorizeRouteView>
</Found>
<NotFound>
<LayoutView Layout="#typeof(MainLayout)">
<p>Sorry, there's nothing at this address.</p>
</LayoutView>
</NotFound>
</Router>
</CascadingAuthenticationState>
Herein lies the problem. Since the Client and Server share the same base address, when the application cannot find "api/account/getstatesforprofile" it gives you the client's "Sorry, there's nothing at the address" page. Which is of course HTML.
I have not found the solution to this issue, but I am working on it and will reply once I find an issue.
I was having the same problem,
"JsonReaderException: '<' is an invalid start of a value."
In my case the url for the REST service was wrong.
I was using the URL from the client project. Then I looked at the Swagger screen,
https://localhost:44322/swagger/index.html
and noticed the right URL should start with "44322"...
Corrected, worked.
In my case, I had a comma (,) written mistakenly at the beginning of the appsettings.json file ...
Just check your file and verify
///////
my error details
//////
System.FormatException HResult=0x80131537 Message=Could not parse the JSON file.
Source=Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json StackTrace: at line 16 This exception was originally thrown at this call stack: [External Code] Inner Exception 1: JsonReaderException: ',' is an invalid start of a value. LineNumber: 0 | BytePositionInLine: 0.
////
For me, most of the time it is the #lauri-peltonen answer above. However, now and again, depending on who wrote the controller I have found that this will work in Swagger but not when you call it via the client (at least in this Blazor project we are on.)
[HttpGet]
[Route("prog-map-formulations")]
public async Task<List<GetProgramMapFormulationsResult>> GetProgramMapFormulations(int formulationId)
{
...
}
It sends the request as:
api/formulation-performance-program-map/analytical-assoc-values?formulationId=1
And I get results in Swagger but failes with the '<' OP error.
When I change ONLY the route to:
[HttpGet]
[Route("prog-map-formulations/{formulationId:int}")]
public async Task<List<GetProgramMapFormulationsResult>> GetProgramMapFormulations(int formulationId)
{
...
}
It sends the request as:
api/formulation-performance-program-map/analytical-assoc-values/1
And this works in both Swagger as well as from the Client side in Blazor.
Of course, once updated, I did have to clear the cache!
If you delete "obj" folder in your directory then clean the solution and rebbuild it the exception will be resolved
In all these, there is two things that was my issue and realized, first off was that Route[("api/controller")] instead of Route[("api/[controller]")], that is missing square brackets. In the second exercise I was doing, with the first experience in mind, was from the name of the database. The database had a dot in the name (Stock.Inventory). When I change the database name to StockInventory it worked. The second one I am not so sure but it worked for me.
I have the following:
export const helloWorld = functions.https.onRequest((request, response) => {
response.send(request.body);
});
I ran it locally and ran helloWorld("Hey"), and this was the output:
firebase > helloWorld('HEY')
Sent request to function.
firebase > info: User function triggered, starting execution
info: Execution took 1 ms, user function completed successfully
RESPONSE RECEIVED FROM FUNCTION: 200, "{}"
Why does it only output {} when I clearly sent it a string?
That's not how you invoke HTTP type functions locally. You should review the documentation and use the patterns established there. You invoke the method as if you were using the node request module:
For invoking HTTPS functions in the shell, usage is the same as the
request NPM module, but replace request with the name of the function
you want to emulate. For example:
# invoke
myHttpsFunction()
myHttpsFunction.get()
myHttpsFunction.post()
# invoke at sub-path
myHttpsFunction('/path')
myHttpsFunction.get('/path')
myHttpsFunction.post('/path')
# send POST request with form data
myHttpsFunction.post('/path').form( {foo: 'bar' })
I'm not sure you're able to specify the entire content body. That seems like an uncommon case, since you usually pass parameters to an HTTP function via its query string, or a form encoded body.
I am facing an issue with quickstart php script here: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/web/quickstart/php
When I run the script first time, it executes perfectly and the access token is stored in a file called: drive-php-quickstart.json
When I run the script second time, it gives me the error:
Error start:
Notice: Undefined index: expires_in in \google-api-php-client\src\Google\Client.php on line 485
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'LogicException' with message 'refresh token must be passed in or set as part of setAccessToken' in
Error end:
My assumption is that access token been saved in the file is not in the right format.
Current format:
ya29.CODE-oN_Bearer36001/_ANOTHER-CODE-ANOTHER_ANOTHER_CODE
As you can see, it does not contain the variable "expires_in"
Any suggestions where I am going wrong ? I am running the script as it is, with no modifications.
I've debugged it.... The person who wrote it made a mistake by not calling json_encode before writing the auth result to the token.json file.
You can fix it by adding json_encode on line 45.
So...
file_put_contents($credentialsPath, $accessToken);
...should be:
file_put_contents($credentialsPath, json_encode($accessToken));
I've submitted feedback so hopefully it'll be fixed.
edit: same issue happens for the token refresh call in that same method
edit2: Here's my related comment in a Github discussion and an answer from Google: https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client/issues/263#issuecomment-186557360
I suggested something along the following lines:
if ($client->isAccessTokenExpired()) {
$refreshToken = $client->getRefreshToken();
$client->refreshToken($refreshToken);
$newAccessToken = $client->getAccessToken();
$newAccessToken['refresh_token'] = $refreshToken;
file_put_contents($credentialsPath, json_encode($newAccessToken));
}
Instead of:
// Refresh the token if it's expired.
if ($client->isAccessTokenExpired()) {
$client->refreshToken($client->getRefreshToken());
file_put_contents($credentialsPath, $client->getAccessToken());
}
Google has updated their PHP Quickstart, with an improved method to handle this:
// Exchange authorization code for an access token.
$accessToken = $client->fetchAccessTokenWithAuthCode($authCode);
$client->setAccessToken($accessToken);
// Refresh the token if it's expired.
if ($client->isAccessTokenExpired()) {
$client->fetchAccessTokenWithRefreshToken($client->getRefreshToken());
file_put_contents($credentialsPath, json_encode($client->getAccessToken()));
}
I've just created a project for working with REST API (using yii2 framework).
All issues of REST API is working really cool on localhost. But when bringing the project on server (also the same database is taken by), the authorization is not available. Now I'm using "yii\filters\auth\HttpBearerAuth"
Inside the model "implements IdentityInterface", there's finding-token function "findIdentityByAccessToken" that's so simple, the "validateAuthKey" function is returning always true; see below:
public static function findIdentityByAccessToken($token, $type = null){
return static::findOne(["token" => $token]);
}
public function validateAuthKey($token)
{
return true;
}
See any pictures:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/40158620#N03/20701523349/in/dateposted-public/
Anyone can have some experience on this problem, can you tell me how to solve it? Thanks for your kindness.
Note:
The project, I'm following https://github.com/NguyenDuyPhong/yii2_advanced_api_phong (It works fine on localhost; I also deployed exactly the project on my server, it raised the same problem )
To make sure that the server is configured right: I created 2 actions, 1 is authorized, another is not. I checked unauthorized action, it works very well. =======>
actionView is not authorized => getting API info. is ok
actionIndex is authorized by "yii\filters\auth\HttpBearerAuth" => FAIL
In my case the Problem was that the server removes Authorization Header
I needed to add this to .htaccess
SetEnvIf Authorization "(.*)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1
HttpBearerAuth used $user->loginByAccessToken to authorize see
validateAuthKey used by "loginByCookie"(and it seems that in this case not used)
Try to use QueryParamAuth for test purposes (it's easier to test)
I'm trying to download a file over HTTP using http package in TCL. If the given URL is correct then everything is going fine but if the given URL is wrong then it is not throwing any errors. Now my question is that How to validate given URL using TCL?
Thanks in Advance,
Vijay
The http package doesn't throw errors for most failures (except host resolution); you have to check for them with the http::ncode command.
set token [http::geturl $theWrongUrl]
if {[http::ncode $token] >= 400} {
error "http problem: [string range [http::code $token] 13 end]"
}
(This code will leak a token; it omits the http::cleanup call…)