Commerce 12.5.0: Exception when creating entry with ServiceAPI 5.

Commerce 12.5.0: Exception when creating entry with ServiceAPI 5.1

Rickard Lindgren

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Hi,

I can no longer create entries by calling the service API. We upgraded from 11.8 to 12.2 before summer, and yesterday I updated to 12.5 but it didn't help.

Updating an existing entry works just fine.

This is the error I get:
Result: "{\"Message\":\"An error has occurred.\",\"ExceptionMessage\":\"There is no contentType registered for: EPiServer.Commerce.Catalog.ContentTypes.EntryContentBase\",\"ExceptionType\":\"System.NotSupportedException\",\"StackTrace\":\" at EPiServer.Core.Internal.DefaultContentRepository.GetDefault[T](ContentReference parentLink, CultureInfo language)\\r\\n at EPiServer.Core.Internal.DefaultContentRepository.GetDefault[T](ContentReference parentLink)\\r\\n at EPiServer.ServiceApi.Commerce.Controllers.Catalog.Persistence.EntryModelCommitter.SaveCatalogEntry(Entry catalogEntry)\\r\\n at EPiServer.ServiceApi.Commerce.Controllers.Catalog.EntryController.PostCatalogEntry(Entry catalogEntry)\\r\\n at lambda_method(Closure , Object , Object[] )\\r\\n at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor.ActionExecutor.<>c__DisplayClass10.b__9(Object instance, Object[] methodParameters)\\r\\n ...

And this is the model I'm using:

var model = new Entry
{
Code = "111111",
Catalog = "Books",
EndDate = DateTime.UtcNow.AddDays(100),
EntryType = "Variant",
InventoryStatus = "Enabled",
IsActive = false,
MetaClass = "BookVariant",
Name = "Test 111111",
StartDate = DateTime.UtcNow
};

Thanks,
Rickard

#195841

Aug 09, 2018 8:33

Quan Mai

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do you have BookVariant metaclass created? It sounds to me there has been a problem with it

#195842

Aug 09, 2018 10:20

Rickard Lindgren

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Screenshot of Commerce manager

Is this what you mean? Can I try to recreate it or create a new for testing?

/Rickard

#195850

Aug 09, 2018 12:33

Viet Anh

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Can you try setting EntryType = "Variation"?

#195851

Aug 09, 2018 12:37

Rickard Lindgren

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I tried this and got the same error.

var model = new Entry
{
Code = "111111",
Catalog = "Books",
EndDate = DateTime.UtcNow.AddDays(100),
EntryType = "Variation",
InventoryStatus = "Enabled",
IsActive = false,
MetaClass = "BookVariant",
Name = "Test 111111",
StartDate = DateTime.UtcNow
};

#195852

Aug 09, 2018 12:40

Viet Anh

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Then I agree with Quan that smthing wrong with meta class BookVariant. Can you create a similar one for testing?

#195887

Aug 10, 2018 5:00

Quan Mai

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I would suggest to try these steps:

First restart your website to make sure the content types and metaclasses are properly mapped, and try again
If it still does not work, can you try to add a strongly typed content type for BookVariant?

#195891

Aug 10, 2018 9:16

Rickard Lindgren

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Hi,

I have restarted the website, still getting error.

I created a new metaclass and got the same error.
I tried with another metaclass that we created in the beginning of the project. Same error.

We have this class for BookVariant. It has worked earlier:

[CatalogContentType(
GUID = "D7C2DC51-74C7-4CB8-A6F4-79CA9A0DD980",
MetaClassName = "BookVariant",
DisplayName = "Book Variant",
Description = "Display book variant")]
public class BookVariant : ByggtjanstVariantBase
{
//properties
}

public class ByggtjanstVariantBase : VariationContent
{
}

The one thing that might have changed is BookVariant inheriting from ByggtjanstVariantBase instead of VariationContent. Could that cause problems?

Thanks,
Rickard

#195945

Aug 13, 2018 12:56

Viet Anh

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That's strange. I'll try to reproduce at my side...

#195946

Aug 13, 2018 13:01

Bien Nguyen

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Hi,

ByggtjanstVariantBase should not be the problem here.

Could you check if the contentTypeModel in the following snippet code is not null?

var metaClassId = MetaClass.Load(CatalogContext.MetaDataContext, "BookVariant");

var contentTypeModel = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<MetaClassToContentTypeMap>().GetContentTypeModel(metaClassId);

#196061

Aug 17, 2018 12:12

Rickard Lindgren

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Thanks,

contentTypeModel is not null when I run your code snippet.

#196064

Aug 17, 2018 12:32

Bien Nguyen

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And is the contentTypeModel pointed to the BookVariant class correclty? (you can check the contentTypeModel.Name)

You could also check the content type if it's correct:

var contentType = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentTypeRepository>().Load(contentTypeModel);

It's weird when it throws that error while the contentTypeModel is correct. I haven't reprocedured it on my local yet...

#196068

Aug 17, 2018 12:57

Rickard Lindgren

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Hi!

I checked contentType. It returns the correct class.

#196232

Aug 22, 2018 12:23

Quan Mai

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@Rickard: I'd suggest you to contact developer support service. When we are able to reproduce the problem we will be able to say more.

#196242

Aug 22, 2018 18:47

Quan Mai

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I was able to look into your setup, and the investigation shows that your BookVariant (and other strongly typed content types ) were not present in the context of ServiceAPI site, which was required as ServiceAPI 5.0 switched to strongly typed content type internally).

We should probably have documented this. However to fix the problem you can have two options:

Either move your content types to a separated project and deploy it to bin folder of ServiceAPI, which is the preferred method
Or just deploy your dll to bin folder (along with dependencies), and add this setting <add key="episerver:serviceapi:maphttpattributeroutes" value="false" /> to appSettings of ServiceAPI web.config (which is specific to your site because yours seems to register the attribute routes itself.

#196735

Sep 10, 2018 16:19

Rickard Lindgren

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Hi!

Sorry for late reply. I had to test this several times to believe that it worked and it does work now.

Thank you for your help!!

Rickard

#196909

Sep 16, 2018 22:36