Invalid content type on user.message()

[kevinlondon]

I'm trying to figure out how to send a user a message. In this case, I'm iterating through the list of users, picking out the user I'd like to message, and then sending a message with user.message("foo") to test. Below is the py.test output from running the test (I've replaced the user ID with a stock one).

self = <hypchat._requests object at 0x103bd6860>, method = 'POST', url = 'https://api.hipchat.com/v2/user/12345/message', kwargs = {'data': '{"message_format": "text", "message": "foo", "notify": true}', 'headers': {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}}
rv = <Response [400]>

    def request(self, method, url, **kwargs):
            rv = super(Requests, self).request(method, url, **self._kw(kwargs))
            # Raise one of our specific errors
            if rv.status_code in _http_errors:
>                   raise _http_errors[rv.status_code](rv.text, response=rv)
E                   hypchat.requests.HttpBadRequest: {
E                     "error": {
E                       "code": 400,
E                       "message": "Invalid content type",
E                       "type": "Bad Request"
E                     }
E                   }

Do you have any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong?

[AstraLuma]

This sounds like a misconfiguration or bug with HipChat. The request posted matches the API docs.

I'm assuming that, since you've successfully enumerated users, you have a valid access token. Make sure it has the send_message scope. (If it does not, HipChat sent the wrong HTTP error.)

If you can replicate the issue using eg cURL, might want to bounce this off HipChat support.

[kevinlondon]

Ah, interesting. I got the error because I was storing my key in a file. There was a newline character at the end of my key which mattered when sending a message but did not matter when retrieving a list of users. rstrip("\n") on the key fixed it. Thanks!

[AstraLuma]

Might want to make your config parsing a bit more robust than that. I recommend one of the many structured file parsing libraries (ConfigParser, json, yaml, etc).

[kevinlondon]

Yeah, good advice. Thanks again for the help.