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' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
Dim http As New Chilkat.Http
Dim success As Boolean
' Use this online tool to generate code from sample JSON: Generate Code to Create JSON
' The following JSON is sent in the request body.
' {
' "LicenseKey": "123abc",
' "MachineName": "FAKEMACHINE",
' "Name": "joe",
' "Username": "someone",
' "Type": "Development",
' "Password": null,
' "RobotEnvironments": "playground",
' "ExecutionSettings": null
' }
Dim json As New Chilkat.JsonObject
json.UpdateString("LicenseKey","123abc")
json.UpdateString("MachineName","FAKEMACHINE")
json.UpdateString("Name","joe")
json.UpdateString("Username","someone")
json.UpdateString("Type","Development")
json.UpdateNull("Password")
json.UpdateString("RobotEnvironments","playground")
json.UpdateNull("ExecutionSettings")
http.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json")
' Adds the "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>" header.
http.AuthToken = "<access_token>"
http.SetRequestHeader("X-UIPATH-OrganizationUnitId","{{folderId}}")
http.SetRequestHeader("X-UIPATH-TenantName","{{tenantName}}")
Dim resp As Chilkat.HttpResponse = http.PostJson3("https://domain.com/odata/Robots","application/json",json)
If (http.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
Exit Sub
End If
Dim sbResponseBody As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
resp.GetBodySb(sbResponseBody)
Dim jResp As New Chilkat.JsonObject
jResp.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)
jResp.EmitCompact = False
Debug.WriteLine("Response Body:")
Debug.WriteLine(jResp.Emit())
Dim respStatusCode As Integer = resp.StatusCode
Debug.WriteLine("Response Status Code = " & respStatusCode)
If (respStatusCode >= 400) Then
Debug.WriteLine("Response Header:")
Debug.WriteLine(resp.Header)
Debug.WriteLine("Failed.")
Exit Sub
End If
' Sample JSON response:
' (Sample code for parsing the JSON response is shown below)
' {
' "@odata.context": "https://platform.uipath.com/odata/$metadata#Robots/$entity",
' "LicenseKey": "123abc",
' "MachineName": "FAKEMACHINE",
' "MachineId": 20977,
' "Name": "joe",
' "Username": "someone",
' "Description": null,
' "Type": "Development",
' "Password": null,
' "RobotEnvironments": "",
' "Id": 33428,
' "ExecutionSettings": null
' }
' Sample code for parsing the JSON response...
' Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: Generate JSON Parsing Code
Dim odata_context As String = jResp.StringOf("""@odata.context""")
Dim LicenseKey As String = jResp.StringOf("LicenseKey")
Dim MachineName As String = jResp.StringOf("MachineName")
Dim MachineId As Integer = jResp.IntOf("MachineId")
Dim Name As String = jResp.StringOf("Name")
Dim Username As String = jResp.StringOf("Username")
Dim Description As String = jResp.StringOf("Description")
Dim v_Type As String = jResp.StringOf("Type")
Dim Password As String = jResp.StringOf("Password")
Dim RobotEnvironments As String = jResp.StringOf("RobotEnvironments")
Dim Id As Integer = jResp.IntOf("Id")
Dim ExecutionSettings As String = jResp.StringOf("ExecutionSettings")
Curl Command
curl -X POST
-H "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-H "X-UIPATH-TenantName: {{tenantName}}"
-H "X-UIPATH-OrganizationUnitId: {{folderId}}"
-d '{
"LicenseKey": "123abc",
"MachineName": "FAKEMACHINE",
"Name": "joe",
"Username": "someone",
"Type": "Development",
"Password": null,
"RobotEnvironments": "playground",
"ExecutionSettings": null
}'
https://domain.com/odata/Robots
Postman Collection Item JSON
{
"name": "Robots - Create",
"request": {
"method": "POST",
"header": [
{
"key": "Content-Type",
"value": "application/json",
"type": "text"
},
{
"key": "X-UIPATH-TenantName",
"value": "{{tenantName}}",
"type": "text"
},
{
"key": "X-UIPATH-OrganizationUnitId",
"value": "{{folderId}}",
"type": "text"
}
],
"body": {
"mode": "raw",
"raw": "{\n \"LicenseKey\": \"123abc\",\n \"MachineName\": \"FAKEMACHINE\",\n \"Name\": \"joe\",\n \"Username\": \"someone\",\n \"Type\": \"Development\",\n \"Password\": null,\n \"RobotEnvironments\": \"playground\",\n \"ExecutionSettings\": null\n}"
},
"url": {
"raw": "{{url}}/odata/Robots",
"host": [
"{{url}}"
],
"path": [
"odata",
"Robots"
]
}
},
"response": [
{
"name": "Robots - Create",
"originalRequest": {
"method": "POST",
"header": [
{
"key": "Content-Type",
"value": "application/json",
"disabled": false
}
],
"body": {
"mode": "raw",
"raw": "{\n \"LicenseKey\": \"123abc\",\n \"MachineName\": \"FAKEMACHINE\",\n \"Name\": \"joe\",\n \"Username\": \"someone\",\n \"Type\": \"Development\",\n \"Password\": null,\n \"RobotEnvironments\": \"playground\",\n \"ExecutionSettings\": null\n}"
},
"url": {
"raw": "{{url}}/odata/Robots",
"host": [
"{{url}}"
],
"path": [
"odata",
"Robots"
]
}
},
"status": "Created",
"code": 201,
"_postman_previewlanguage": "json",
"header": [
{
"key": "CF-RAY",
"value": "44302f694aea91d0-EWR",
"name": "CF-RAY",
"description": "Custom header"
},
{
"key": "Cache-Control",
"value": "no-store, must-revalidate, no-cache, max-age=0",
"name": "Cache-Control",
"description": "Tells all caching mechanisms from server to client whether they may cache this object. It is measured in seconds"
},
{
"key": "Connection",
"value": "keep-alive",
"name": "Connection",
"description": "Options that are desired for the connection"
},
{
"key": "Content-Length",
"value": "296",
"name": "Content-Length",
"description": "The length of the response body in octets (8-bit bytes)"
},
{
"key": "Content-Type",
"value": "application/json; odata.metadata=minimal",
"name": "Content-Type",
"description": "The mime type of this content"
},
{
"key": "Date",
"value": "Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:49:29 GMT",
"name": "Date",
"description": "The date and time that the message was sent"
},
{
"key": "Expect-CT",
"value": "max-age=604800, report-uri=\"https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct\"",
"name": "Expect-CT",
"description": "Custom header"
},
{
"key": "Location",
"value": "https://platform.uipath.com/odata/Robots(33428)",
"name": "Location",
"description": "Used in redirection, or when a new resource has been created."
},
{
"key": "OData-Version",
"value": "4.0",
"name": "OData-Version",
"description": "Custom header"
},
{
"key": "Server",
"value": "cloudflare",
"name": "Server",
"description": "A name for the server"
},
{
"key": "Set-Cookie",
"value": "; SameSite=lax",
"name": "Set-Cookie",
"description": "an HTTP cookie"
},
{
"key": "Strict-Transport-Security",
"value": "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains",
"name": "Strict-Transport-Security",
"description": "A HSTS Policy informing the HTTP client how long to cache the HTTPS only policy and whether this applies to subdomains."
},
{
"key": "X-Content-Type-Options",
"value": "nosniff",
"name": "X-Content-Type-Options",
"description": "The only defined value, \"nosniff\", prevents Internet Explorer from MIME-sniffing a response away from the declared content-type"
},
{
"key": "X-Frame-Options",
"value": "DENY",
"name": "X-Frame-Options",
"description": "Clickjacking protection: \"deny\" - no rendering within a frame, \"sameorigin\" - no rendering if origin mismatch"
},
{
"key": "api-supported-versions",
"value": "5.0",
"name": "api-supported-versions",
"description": "Custom header"
}
],
"cookie": [
{
"expires": "Wed Dec 19 2018 11:35:02 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": true,
"domain": "uipath.com",
"path": "/",
"secure": true,
"value": "d3b89a558feb68050f4b847c971f595771513704902",
"key": "__cfduid"
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/odata/QueueProcessingRecords",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/api/RobotsService",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/odata/Processes",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/odata/Settings",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/odata/Robots",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/odata/Queues",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/odata/Assets",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/api/Account",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/odata/Users",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/odata/Jobs",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/api/Logs",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/Account",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/odata",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/api",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/",
"secure": false,
"value": "",
"key": ""
},
{
"expires": "Mon Jan 18 2038 21:14:07 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)",
"httpOnly": false,
"domain": "platform.uipath.com",
"path": "/",
"secure": false,
"value": "GC-osp2U-YDhoXTOqXnUp3DaN1cN_siVCaNVue_jljOcqJLYHQrRk5msz52KHL8XauydRYx_3JyjLtLDpItypCPdEL20jFnxlF2g-f86Qk41",
"key": "__RequestVerificationToken"
}
],
"body": "{\"@odata.context\":\"https://platform.uipath.com/odata/$metadata#Robots/$entity\",\"LicenseKey\":\"123abc\",\"MachineName\":\"FAKEMACHINE\",\"MachineId\":20977,\"Name\":\"joe\",\"Username\":\"someone\",\"Description\":null,\"Type\":\"Development\",\"Password\":null,\"RobotEnvironments\":\"\",\"Id\":33428,\"ExecutionSettings\":null}"
}
]
}
