Using REST to close a job from PHP

[smason (Scott Mason)]

“Simply create this JSON Object”

I’m lost how and what do do at that step. What JSON object?

Here is an example function I created that checks Epicor credentials that works:

  //This function will call a REST service on Epicor10 and check if the user+pass combo supplied by the user is legit
function check_epicor_credentials($username = "", $password = "") {

	//initialize the return value
		$valid_credentials = false;

	//Needed inside the HTTPHEADER Authorization parameter
	//Authorization is the base64 encoded string of "username:password"
		$auth = base64_encode("manager:manager");

	//Start CURL
		$curl = curl_init();

	//Set CURL Options
		curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
			CURLOPT_URL => "https://our-E10-server/E10Train/api/v1/Ice.BO.UserFileSvc/ValidatePassword",
			CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
			CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
			CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST =>false,
			CURLOPT_ENCODING => "UTF-8",
			CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
			CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
			CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
			CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
			CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\r\n  \"userID\": \"". $username. "\",\r\n  \"password\": \"" . $password . "\"\r\n}",
			CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
				"Authorization: Basic " . $auth,
				"Cache-Control: no-cache",
				"Content-Type: application/json",
			),
		));

	//Run CURL
		if ( !$c_response = curl_exec($curl) ) {
		//CURL call error
			//echo curl_error($curl);
			$valid_credentials = false;
		} else {
		//CURL call success
			$s = json_decode($c_response, true);
			$valid_credentials = ($s['returnObj']); //returnObj is what the REST function returns, values of this are true or false
		}

	//Close CURL
		curl_close($curl);

		return ($valid_credentials);

} //end function check_epicor_credentials

I don’t know where the POST fields go or how to package them to send to CURL. The example on the API shows a huge list of items as well, how do I generate those?