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kevhav
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8 years ago
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Power BI REST API - notify on refresh failure not working

I am successfully using the "Refresh Dataset In Group" API: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets/refreshdatasetingroup   To get the access token, I am using grant_type=passw...
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kevhav
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8 years ago

Hi v-qiuyu-msft,

 

I tested this in Postman, with Fiddler running, to get the HTTP trace data for you.

 

However, when I tested it with Postman, it worked! I did receive an email notification, after the dataset refresh failed.

 

Normally, I am calling the API with a Python script, using Python's "requests" library. I tried some different things, and I discovered that the issue was with my Python syntax. 

 

In Python, I had been creating the body of the HTTP request as a JSON type, like this:

httpBody = {
    'notifyOption': 'MailOnFailure'
}

I figured the above would work, because in Python, it works to create the HTTP headers as a JSON type.

 

But I was wrong! After I changed the HTTP body to a string type, it fixed it...like this:

httpBody = '{\"notifyOption\": \"MailOnFailure\"}'

So, you can close this. Thanks.

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