Error while creating a new datasource on a gateway using REST API

[Anonymous]

Request Body:

{

"datasourceType": "File",
"connectionDetails": "{\"path\":\"D:\\\\temp\\\\folderName\\\\dataFolder\\\\custPayData.xlsx\"}",
"datasourceName": "data_source_test_1_api",

"credentialDetails": {
"credentialType": "Windows",
"credentials":"{\"credentialData\":[{\"name\":\"username\", \"value\":\"DomainName\\UserName\"},{\"name\":\"password\", \"value\":\"password\"}]}",
"useEndUserOAuth2Credentials": false,
"encryptedConnection": "NotEncrypted",
"encryptionAlgorithm": "None",
"privacyLevel": "None"
}

}

Response :

{
"error": {
"code": "DMTS_InvalidEncryptionAlgorithmError",
"pbi.error": {
"code": "DMTS_InvalidEncryptionAlgorithmError",
"parameters": {},
"details": [],
"exceptionCulprit": 1
}
}
}

Headers:

[Anonymous]

Same issue here. Considering that this post is already half a year old, has anyone found a solution to this?

[Anonymous]

Found a solution to this. 

You need to encrypt your credentials first, before you can make the API call. Encryption method in C# is described here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/encrypt-credentials

encryptionAlgorithm should be set to "RSA-OAEP"

See my stackoverflow post here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56961746/power-bi-api-post-datasource-errors-with-dmts-invaliden...

I am going to try and build a JS / Node based encryption function and will post here when successful.

[vpartem]

Do you have a update?

[Anonymous]

Joining in on the party. I have the same error when trying to add azure sql db's as datasources.

I can set the encryptionalgorithm to RSA-OAEP to avoid this error but then I get a 

{'error': {'code': 'UnknownError', 'pbi.error': {'code': 'UnknownError'}}}

Possibly because for cloud datasources it needs to be set to none according to the docs. But maybe it can help you to set EncryptionAlgorithm to RSA-OAEP (only accepted value according to docs) and see what happens.

[dapuvv]

Hi , 
I am  able to connect to odata source if it is of type "https" , but cannot connect to "http", I am getting same issue as above. 

is "http" considered as on premise connection?