Unable to log water

[yegle]

I've been trying to play with Fitbit API and found that I cannot log water usage.

The URL in question is https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/foods/log/water/date/2015-09-12.json

The problem is: if I issue GET request to this endpoint, I can get a list of water log, which indicates there's no problem in the OAuth header, nor the URL itself. But when I send POST request with appropriate form field I got 404 back with the following content:

&{404 Not Found 404 HTTP/1.1 1 1 map[Date:[Sun, 13 Sep 2015 03:21:20 GMT] Server:[nginx] Expires:[Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT] Content-Type:[application/json;charset=UTF-8] Vary:[Accept-Encoding] Pragma:[no-cache] X-Frame-Options:[SAMEORIGIN] X-Ua-Compatible:[IE=edge,chrome=1] Set-Cookie:[JSESSIONID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.fitbit1; Path=/; HttpOnly] Www-Authenticate:[OAuth realm="https%3A%2F%2Fapi007-g4.prod.dal05.fitbit.com"] Cache-Control:[no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate]] 0xc8200122a0 -1 [chunked] false map[] 0xc8200d22a0 0xc82044c4d0}
{"errors":[{"errorType":"not_found","fieldName":"n/a","message":"The API you are requesting could not be found."}],"success":false}

What's the problem?

[JeremiahFitbit]

That is the endpoint to retrieve water logs on a particular day. But it's not the endpoint if you want to createa new water log. See the documentation at https://dev.fitbit.com/docs/food-logging/#log-water

[yegle]

Hi Jeremiah,

Thank you for your reply. Reading the document, read and write water log use the same URL I assume?

POST /1/user/[user-id]/foods/log/water/date/[date].json
GET  /1/user/[user-id]/foods/log/water/date/[date].json

[TheYann]

Hi,

I have the same problem.

Documentation indicates indeed that the urls for getting and posting water log are the same, but the error message I get is exactly the same as yegle had.

I tried post with query params and with form encoded fields but I get the same error.

{"errors":[{"errorType":"not_found","fieldName":"n/a","message":"The API you are requesting could not be found."}],"success":false}

So I guess the documentation is incorrect, FitBit could you check it out ?

[TheYann · Accepted solution]

The api for logging water is https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/foods/log/water.json.

In POST with Form Encoded parameters, it works for me. Hope this helps.

Fitbit please fix your documentation 🙂



[yegle]

Thank you so much TheYann 🙂

[TheYann]

You are very welcome sir 🙂

[MissEllen]

THIS IS THE ANSWER I GET WHEN I GO TO THAT WEBSITE https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/foods/log/water.json

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

AND THERE IS NO "DOCUMENT TREE"

[JeremiahFitbit]

@MissEllen: There indeed is no document tree. You'll need to parse the server's response as JSON instead of XML.