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latheesh89
Helper II
Helper II

Unable to update connection string using SetAllConnections API

Dear Techies,

 

I was successfully able to upload PBIX files to PBI Service using Import API. Now, I am trying to update the connection string using SetAllConnections API. The dataset that I am trying to update is using SQL Server as source and DirectQuery mode

 

Below is my query snippet, I am getting 404 bad request error

 

private static void UpdateConnection(string DatasetID)

        {

            string powerBIDatasetsApiUrl =String.Format("https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/myorg/datasets/{0}/Default.SetAllConnections",DatasetID);

            HttpWebRequest request = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(powerBIDatasetsApiUrl) asSystem.Net.HttpWebRequest;

            request.KeepAlive = true;

            request.Method = "POST";

            request.ContentLength = 0;

            request.ContentType = "application/json";

 

            //Add token to the request header

            request.Headers.Add("Authorization"String.Format("Bearer {0}", token));

 

            string updateJSON = "{\"connectionString\":\"data source=XXXXX;initial catalog=XXXXX;persist security info=True;encrypt=True;trustservercertificate=False\"}";

           

            //POST web request

            byte[] byteArray = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(updateJSON);

            request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;

 

            //Write JSON byte[] into a Stream

            using (Stream writer = request.GetRequestStream())

            {

                writer.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);

 

                var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); ----Error at this line

                //Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Dataset {0}", response.StatusCode.ToString()));

                Console.ReadLine();

            }

 

        }

 

 

Am I missing something? Please help

 

Thanks,

Latheesh

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Eric_Zhang
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@latheesh89

There'a actually an error in the Set All Connections API which leads to a 404 error. Try to remove the duplicated /myorg from the Url .../myorg/myorg/...

Thanks Eric,

 

I even tried removing myorg, but my error didn't get resolved.


@latheesh89 wrote:

Thanks Eric,

 

I even tried removing myorg, but my error didn't get resolved.


@latheesh89

Where is the dataset in your case? If in some group, you'll specify the groupid in the POST request url. Can you double comfirm that the datasetid is correct?

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